Then the weather clouded over. that was on wednesday the eve of the party. anxiety was intense. then thursday, september the 22nd, actually dawned. the sun got up, the clouds vanished, flags were unfurled and the fun began.
bilbo baggins called it a party, but it was really a variety of entertainments rolled into one. practically everybody living near was invited. a very few were overlooked by accident, but as they turned up all the same, that did not matter.
what do readers learn about the setting in this excerpt?
a. the weather is cloudy on the day of the party.
b. the community anxiously awaits the gathering.
c. only a few neighbors are invited to the party.
d. only bilbo is concerned with the weather.

How does gatsby smile at nick? why is this important?

What similarities are there between melchizedek and the englishman santiago? explain

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.