1. what is the central idea in “the oasis: africa”?
2. what evidence from the story tells you what the central idea is?
for eight weary days we had crawled across the burning desert. in all directions stretched the wastes of the mighty sahara. sand, sand, and always sand; hills of sand, valleys of sand, and paths of sand. sand in the scanty food, sand in the brackish water—water that was drunk lukewarm from a clammy, loathsome water-skin. sand in one’s mouth, nose, and eyes. misery of hunger, torture of thirst; unending discomfort of swarming lice. footsore and weary, but ever before us the pointing finger of the arab sheikh, and his ceaseless: “on, on.”
we had started the journey poorly equipped, and now, having lost two precious days on the way, it seemed likely that if we did not soon strike the oasis, the caravan would perish of thirst. clutch tight your water-skin on the desert, for there is no charity on the sahara, and he that has no water shall not drink!
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Now pick a section from chapter 1 of the call of the wild in which buck is interacting with another character. imagine that section narrated in first person point of view from one of the character's perspective, and rewrite it in the space below, attempting to use a similar writing style as the original author. then, in a second paragraph, consider this: are you able to explore some of the same ideas and themes when viewing the situation from the character's first person point of view, as compared to when it is narrated from london's third-person limited point of view? explain. your response should be be about 150 words in total.

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Which lines from ovid’s "pyramus and thisbe" establish setting?