In this excerpt from herman melville’s short story "the lightning-rod man," which sentences or phrases best support an objective summary of the excerpt?
[hark! there go all the granite taconics and hoosics dashed together like pebbles. by the sound, that must have struck something.][ an elevation of five feet above the house, will protect twenty feet radius all about the rod.] only twenty dollars, sir—a dollar a foot. hark! —dreadful! —will you order? will you buy? shall i put down your name? [think of being a heap of charred offal like a haltered horse burnt in his stall; and all in one flash! "]
["you pretended envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to and from jupiter tonans,"] [laughed i; "you mere man who come here to put you and your pipestem between clay and sky, do you think that because you can strike a bit of green light from the leyden jar, that you can thoroughly avert the supernal bolt? your rod rusts, or breaks, and where are you? ][ who has empowered you, you tetzel, to peddle round your indulgences from divine ordinations? the hairs of our heads are numbered, and the days of our lives. in thunder as in sunshine, i stand at ease in the hands of my god.] false negotiator, away! [see, the scroll of the storm is rolled back; the house is unharmed; and in the blue heavens i read in the rainbow, that the deity will not, of purpose, make war on man's earth."]

the hunger games, written by  suzanne collins, is fiction in the young adult genre, which is not my age group, but i found myself unable to put it down. its combination of nerve-racking tension, thrilling action, and engaging love story kept me up until the wee hours. i was surprised at how completely engrossing the plot was. like  brave new world, this story is set in a future where the government oppresses its people, but the book also borrows ideas from the greek myth of theseus and the minotaur.

divided into 12 districts, ruled by an oppressive government located at the  capitol. katniss everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from district 12, takes her younger sister’s place as one of 24 “tributes” selected every year to participate in the hunger games at the capitol.

while i found this book absolutely enthralling, i was surprised it was aimed at an audience of young adults. it seems extremely intense for anyone younger than 16 or 17. for example, there is a scene where one young tribute is slowly eaten alive by wolf-like creatures all night long, and katniss has to finally throw a weapon at him to end his misery. i found this a little too disturbing when i considered the age of the character.

the intensity of the action was something one would find in a more mature book, but the age of the characters and the simplicity of the prose were aimed at a much younger audience. in addition, this book was written in present tense, which i found annoying, but that’s more of a personal preference than a stylistic fault. it was also edited somewhat poorly, but that rarely distracted from the plot. for example, the author often spoke in sentence fragments to describe how katniss felt, which might have been an attempt to reflect on her thought process, but i found it disorienting to read a lot of really short sentences all together. it would have been better to vary the sentence length on occasion, but the story was still coherently.

overall,  the hunger games  was an excellent, enthralling read that i highly recommend. if it was more clearly marked for older teens, it would have been better, but it was a fantastic book with a wonderfully creative plot.

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i need 20 things so this was just randomly added. hot and dry is the answer

lemme actually be useful and say i believe the answer is the first one.

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