URGENT!! Read the following discussion: EMILY:
I really liked Pride and Prejudice. It showed how powerful
women can be when they are smart and resourceful.
Elizabeth's self-confidence and ability to identify what she
wants was really impressive.

WILL:
I don't know. I thought it was kind of a girl's book – chick
lit. I found it a little boring. It was all about who liked one
another and who was going to get married. Kind of silly, I
thought

MACKENZIE:
I think that's actually what makes it so interesting. It was a time when women's roles were so limited, and they were totally dependent on men for their well-being. If you didn't marry well, you risked being penniless!

MARCO:
It's sort of like a 19th-century adventure novel, when you
put it that way. This was like the one central conflict of
their lives, and they had to win!

EMILY:
Right. And what was funny is that as a reader you can see
all along that Elizabeth and Darcy are just made for each
other, but Elizabeth has no idea. She thinks she hates him!

MACKENZIE:
One thing it shows us as modern readers is how lucky we
are to be able to depend on ourselves to make our own
fortunes, rather than having to rely on other people to fall
in love with us!

which student is most clearly contradicting his or her own views in this discussion?

a. marco
b. will
c. mackenzie
d. emily

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds.beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. as the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished. then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise. slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it.forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. it was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. it was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire.then, by the light of their own destruction, i saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run.which options accurately describe how the author develops the plot in the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction decreases the tension in the plot because the narrator is simply standing by.the narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction keeps the tension steadily increasing as the narrator comes to realize the men are being killed.the narrator is distracted by his own observations of the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he doesn't react as quickly as he should when the men are killed, thus extending the tension in the plot.the narrator is attentive to the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he immediately understands what has happened when the men are killed, increasing the tension in the plot.