Especially since they live in pack’s whos’ leaders are the biggest and strongest of them all.

Which two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.

Read this excerpt from the poem "monet’s ‘waterlilies’” by robert hayden. here space and time exist in light the eye like the eye of faith believes. the seen, the known dissolve in iridescence, become illusive flesh of light that was not, was, forever is. o light beheld as through refracting tears. here is the aura of that world each of us has lost. here is the shadow of its joy. what is the best evidence that this poem is written in free verse? a.it has two stanzas. b.it has no set meter. c.it uses alliteration. d.it has no repeating words.

In the character of one of the pilgrims who survived the first year in new england write a letter to someone back in england describing your current situation and how it has improved