Read the excerpt from wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. no, let us go no further. decency and custom forbid it. i said it earlier, when speaking of my grandfather: in jewish tradition a man’s death belongs to him alone. let the gas chambers remain closed to prying eyes, and to the imagination. we will never know all that happened behind those doors of steel. read the text and study the images from spiegelman’s maus. mc018-1.jpg which theme is addressed in both excerpts? inexperience can sometimes lead to misunderstanding. it’s important to follow tradition regardless of circumstance. some truths are too difficult to fathom if one has not experienced them. there are times when one must be able to see in order to believe.

Which revision of the sentence most effectively incorporates the literary term characterized?

What character asks for god's mercy on the lady at the end of the poem? arthur lancelot the poem's speaker the reaper

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant