Read the excerpt from a short story. the sonoran desert route was his favorite. his friends were surprised he could endure the solitude of it, but he cherished the barren miles. today he’d passed a mile of verbena in full bloom, followed by ten miles with nothing but sagebrush. the next leg promised cliffs, and he loved to imagine scaling them as he traversed the desolate highway. in fact, one was rising in the distance, and the highway would bear right around it. he looked down to cool the temperature, looked up again, and stared. the grill of a tractor trailer, in his lane, was bearing down upon him. how does the excerpt exemplify the ideas king describes in "danse macabre"?
a. it allows readers to approach a "forbidden door."
b. it provides a "single powerful spectacle" for the imagination’s eye.
c. it forces readers to "grapple" with their own mortality.
d. it introduces an unlikely "dancing partner."

C. It forces readers to "grapple" with their own mortality.

Explanation:

In the excerpt, the narrator indicates how the protagonist of this story is traveling in his favorite route across the desert and showing a lot of enthusiasm about some cliffs he was expecting to see when suddenly, in a matter of seconds, a truck is just a few feet away from him. The reader here gets the idea that he has suffered a car accident and never got to see the cliffs. And this explains how fragile life is and how people have to "grapple" with their mortality.  

d becuase khgfdwhat effect does the word head have on the meaning of this passage?

a. it demonstrates how intelligent he was.

b. it shows he was a favorite of the teachers.

c. it indicates he would be a good preacher.

d. it reveals how self-important he was.

how does the choice of the word head contribute to the passage’s tone?

a. it offers a sense of entitlement.

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