Please, someone, help me. Here is your goal for this lesson:

Write an original prose composition using phrases, clauses, verbals, and various sentence types

You may write about anything you would like: a short narrative telling about something you did or would like to do; a short work of fiction; a summary of a book or movie; or anything you can think of. The narrative must be cohesive (it must make sense). You must include and mark at least one correct example of each of the following:

a prepositional phrase used as an adverb (prep=adv)
a prepositional phrase used as an adjective (prep=adj)
a gerund phrase (np)
a participial phrase (part)
an infinitive used as an adverb (inf=adv)
an infinitive used as an adjective (inf=adj)
an infinitive used as a noun (inf=n)
an appositive (app)
a compound sentence (compound)
a compound-complex sentence (compound-complex)

in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,

the answer is d) the impatience of ordinary people

when connie willis was 12 years old, her mother died. in january of 2003, willis was interviewed for locus magazine. she recognized that death is a major issue in her writing, specially because the vacuous and appalling things that people tend to say in order to support you when someone you loved dies.

but there is another aspect that i have learned from connie willis's quote. in his famous work "danubio", the italian writer claudio magris describes literature as house removals. some messages reach us, other messages get lost in the labyrinth. those messages which are our inheritance teach us how to live and how to die, how to love and how to hate, how to laugh and how to cry. i think that tales really shape us if we listen to them. maybe through the stories we read we learn how to emphatize with others, knowing that the bells tolls for every each of us.