Read the excerpt then answer the question: Excerpt from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain "Then Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn't so. I tried it Once I got a fish-line, but no hooks. It warn't any good to me without hooks. I tried for the hooks three or four times, but somehow I couldn't make it work. By and by, one day, I asked Miss Watson to try for me, but she said I was a fool. She never told me why, and I couldn't make it out no way." In at least 150 words, explain how Twain uses satire to develop theme in this excerpt

The hawks are an allegory for the dangers the boy is about to encounter in the desert.which quotation from the alchemist best supports this statement? "sit down. we'll have something to drink and eat these hawks,' said the alchemist.""he watched the hawks as they drifted on the wind. although their flight appeared to have no pattern, it made a certain kind of sensetthe boy.""suddenly, one of the hawks made a flashing dive through the sky, attacking the other. as it did so, a sudden, fleeting image came to tboy."o "who dares to read the meaning of the flight of the hawks? ' he "

That time of year thou mayst in me behold when yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang upon those boughs which shake against the cold, bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang in me thou sees the twilight of such day as after sunset fadeth in the west; which by and by black night doth take away, death's second self that seals up all in rest. in me thou seest the glowing of such fire that on the ashes of his youth doth lie, as the deathbed whereon it must expire, consumed with that which it was nourished by. this thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well, which thou must leave ere long. the first stanza compares the leafless limbs of a tree to a.yellow leaves b.sweet birds c.bare choirs d.summer

Which excerpt best states the central idea of the second paragraph of the dark game ?