"The Mouse" by Saki (Commomnlit assignment) 1. Part A: which of the following best identifies a theme of a text?

A. It is easy to judge others, but it is difficult to judge others correctly.

B. Shame is necessary for maintaining order within a society.

C. Men and women act differently together in public than they do in private.

D. Fear of humiliation can sometimes lead to more embarrassing situations.

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D. Fear of humiliation can sometimes lead to more embarrassing situations.

Explanation:

The short story "The Mousse" introduces us to Theodoric, a man very concerned with his image and behavior in front of people, who found himself in a very embarrassing situation. A mouse got stuck in his clothes, making him need to undress near a lady. The problem is that he was too scared to spend this awkward moment in front of a woman, but the lady was sleeping, she would not have seen anything if Theodorico, trying to create a kind of "room" would create a great confusion and noise when knocking over everything, fall and get hurt.

With this we can conclude that often the fear of humiliation causes more embarrassing situations.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.