Based on what readers learn from the excerpt from "the interlopers," why didn't the two neighbors shoot one another?
"the two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment. each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind. the chance had come to give full play to the passions of a lifetime. but a man who has been brought up under the code of a restraining civilication cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbour in cold blood and without word spoken, except for an offence against his hearth and honour."

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their powder was wet, so they decided to duel with blades.

they couldn’t see through the rain storm.

because of their code of honor.

ulrich von gradwitz couldn’t pull the trigger on georg because georg, or georgette (her real name), was his girlfriend in high school.

Read the quotation from "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." and now he became conscious of a new disturbance. striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality. he wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or near by—it seemed both. its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell. he awaited each stroke with impatience and—he knew not why—apprehension. the intervals of silence grew progressively longer, the delays became maddening. with their greater infrequency the sounds increased in strength and sharpness. they hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife; he feared he would shriek. what he heard was the ticking of his watch. which best describes the effect of the narration in the excerpt? it suggests that the man being executed feels tranquil and at peace. it suggests that the narrator is sympathetic to the man being executed. it suggests that the plot will become less tense as the story continues. it suggests that the story will become more intense and mysterious.

If you begin to question the validity of the catholic church's teachings, then you could be considered a

In the poem i felt a funeral, in my brain what rhyme scheme does the poet use and how does it contribute to the poem?