Which excerpt from nadine gordimer's “once upon a time” best prepares the reader for the symbolic meaning of the dragon's teeth as it relates to the development of the plot?
…the low-cost option of pieces of broken glass embedded in cement along the top of walls, …
… (twelve-inch pikes finned like zigzags of lightening and painted white).
… it consisted of a continuous coil of stiff and shining metal serrated into jagged blades, so that there would be no way … through its tunnel without getting entangled in its fangs
… sunlight flashed and slashed, off the serrations, the cornice of razor thorns encircled the home, shining.

   The excerpt from Nadine Gordimer's "Once Upon a Time" that best prepares the reader for the symbolic meaning of the dragon's teeth, is:

   "Placed the length of walls, it consisted of a continuous coil of stiff and shining metal serrated into jagged blades, so that there would be no way of climbing over it and no way through its tunnel without getting entangled in its fangs. There would be no way out, only a struggle getting bloodier and bloodier, deeper and sharper hooking and tearing of flesh. The wife shuddered to look at it. You're right, said the husband, anyone would think twice... And they took heed of the advice on a small board fixed to the wall: Consult DRAGON'S TEETH The People For Total Security."

  That's how we can summarize "Once Upon a Time": After waking at night from strange sounds, fearing she doesn't have enough security, a frightened writer tells herself a tale about a modern family, that for the potential dangers around them have their perfect life destroyed for the sake of security; having to appeal to a  "ultimate security device", the Dragon Teeth. After several security measures they install this type of spiked wire on the walls outside their house, believing no one could possibly escalate the walls afraid of being fatally injured; what comes as unexpected is that the little boy of the family, not aware of the danger, tried to escalate the walls on a play:

"One evening, the mother read the little boy to sleep with a fairy story from the book the wise old witch had given him at Christmas. Next day he pretended to be the Prince who braves the terrible thicket of thorns to enter the palace and kiss the Sleeping Beauty back to life: he dragged a ladder to the wall, the shining coiled tunnel was just wide enough for his little body to creep in, and with the first fixing of its razor-teeth in his knees and hands and head he screamed and struggled deeper into its tangle"

That is how the Dragon's teeth and the excerpt relate to the development of the plot.

the play romeo and juliet was one of the most famous love tragedies ever written. this love story unfortunately had a fatal ending. many people argue over why the lovers had died, was it over free will or fate?  

the death of romeo and juliet was partially because of free will. the fact that romeo and juliet got married knowing that there was a bitter feud between their families, the montague and capulet’s. this feud brought on many problems, such as the murder of tybalt by romeo. juliet knew that this might be a problem for her and romeo. juliet had said: “what’s in a name”? which explains her ill fate of being a capulet and romeo being a montague. when romeo tells his servant “ ay, mine own…show more content…

i believe they had died over the love they had for each other, strong enough that their lives could end so suddenly if something horrible had come between them, and that was exactly how it happened. this tragedy occurred within five days of the two meeting, they experienced love at first sight, got married and quickly were dead. free will became a part of this when juliet decided to take friar laurence’s advise in inhaling a potion that will make people assume she is died but will awake in 42 hours prier to when she took it. when romeo had heard the news that juliet was dead, he assumed it was true, and responded with the line; “well juliet, i will lay with thee tonight”. to me this line indicated how he feels for juliet by dying in her will. the fact that free will didn’t take control of the story; it left fate to be the murder of the lovers. fate first kicked in when their eyes met at the capulet party. when romeo and juliet spoke, their words had powerful contentment; they had such a strong feeling for one another that they could lay in each other’s arms forever. their happiness didn’t last long; there were many reasons for this, for example; the marriage lord capulet arranged between paris and juliet. i believe that the plot of the play thus far leads the audience to believe that the deaths were a result of fate. the last act will determine once and for all if it is fate or free will. romeo again challenges fate.

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