What is theme?

a. the dramatic struggle or clash between two or more forces in a story
b. the recurring object, concept, or idea in a story
c. the lesson a reader infers from reading a story
d. the central message or insight revealed through a story

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. “this fair country alone is settled by freeholders, the possessors of the soil they cultivate . .” in about 100 words, discuss the influence that being a “freeholder” has on a settler and, according to crevecoeur, the admirable qualities it engenders.

Danny went for a long bike ride he covered at least forty miles

Question 5 the poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice. yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “tho' the morning was cold, tom was happy and warm / so if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” this is an ironic expression of the narrator’s