Can someone PLEASE HELP me figure out what the narrator from “First Confession” by Frank O’Connor and the “Forbidden Fruit” by Frazil iskander have in common and how they are different Please. Also please try to answer I really need help.

If you were starving, what would you do for food? "condensed milk" tells the story of a political prisoner in a russian gulag (a forced-labor camp) who is faced with a choice: stay in the gulag—working and starving—or escape from the prison and risk dying. what choice would you make? historical context: from 1929 to 1953, joseph stalin was the dictator of the soviet union. his goal was to transform the soviet union from a poor society into a world superpower. he used terror and violence to rule, and under his reign, millions of his own people died in work camps, from starvation due to famine, or by execution. select a detail to support the idea that russian gulags treated prisoners cruelly. prisoners faced choices. prisoners had to work. prisoners tried to escape. prisoners were starving.

What is the meaning of the word checking as it is used in this sentence from the second paragraph of the passage?

Which is included in the radio broadcast to capture the listener's attention that the original text of the story is not able to include