The sonoran desert route was his favorite. his friends were surprised he could endure the solitude of it, but he cherished the barren miles. today he’d passed a mile of verbena in full bloom, followed by ten miles with nothing but sagebrush. the next leg promised cliffs, and he loved to imagine scaling them as he traversed the desolate highway. in fact, one was rising in the distance, and the highway would bear right around it. he looked down to cool the temperature, looked up again, and stared. the grill of a tractor trailer, in his lane, was bearing down upon him. how does the excerpt exemplify the ideas king describes in "danse macabre"?

It forces readers to "grapple" with their own mortality.

Explanation:

By exemplifying a sudden realization of the characters mortality, a sudden light coming your way, King tries to force the reader to grapple it's own mortality. To realize that in a moment nothing else could happen.

It forces readers to “grapple” with their own mortality.

Explanation:

the chosen symbology is the 'sweet secret' which anna confesses on january 6th.

anne's thoughts on her mother are further indication of her growing maturity and of her feelings of isolation from her mother.

the homoeroticism of this passage led it to be excluded from early editions of the journal. this passage shows anne's simultaneous innocense about and fascination with sex. she's clearly aware and unafraid of being sexual, but at the same time is seemingly unaware that her homosexual feelings could be considered taboo back then.

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