Identify what is being asked in each statement. 1. These are the personal connections that make you between yourself and the selection you are dealing with. 2. These are the connections where you relate one material to another that you have read or have already come across. 3. These are the larger connections that a reader brings to a reading situation including our perception of the world. 4. This is the best way to remember and associate your experiences with those presented in any text. 5. The author of Gift of Magi

The answer is exciting networking.

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.