Ifollowed the candle down, as i had followed the candle up, and she stood it in the place where we had found it. until she opened the side entrance, i had fancied, without thinking about it, that it must necessarily be night-time. the rush of the daylight quite confounded me, and made me feel as if i had been in the candlelight of the strange room many hours.

“you are to wait here, you boy,” said estella; and disappeared and closed the door.

which sentence introduces the conflict that develops the theme? i took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard to look at my coarse hands and my common boots. my opinion of those accessories was not favorable. they had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages. i determined to ask joe why he had ever taught me to call those playing cards jacks, which ought to be called knaves. i wished joe had been rather more genteelly (respectably) brought up, and then i should have been so too.

Select the correct text in the passage. which set of lines spoken by sebastian in act v, scene i, of twelfth night implies that olivia is not attracted to him simply because she is crazy? sebastian: this is the air; that is the glorious sun; this pearl she gave me, i do feel't and see't: and though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus, yet 'tis not madness. where's antonio, then? i could not find him at the elephant; yet there he was; and there i found this credit, that he did range the town to seek me out. his counsel now might do me golden service; for though my soul disputes well with my sense, that this may be some error, but no madness, yet doth this accident and flood of fortune so far exceed all instance, all discourse, that i am ready to distrust mine eyes and wrangle with my reason, that persuades me to any other trust but that i am mad, or else the lady's mad; yet if 'twere so, she could not sway her house, command her followers, take and give back affairs and their despatch with such a smooth, discreet, and stable bearing, as i perceive she does: there's something in't that is deceivable. but here comes the lady.

If you were starving, what would you do for food? "condensed milk" tells the story of a political prisoner in a russian gulag (a forced-labor camp) who is faced with a choice: stay in the gulag—working and starving—or escape from the prison and risk dying. what choice would you make? historical context: from 1929 to 1953, joseph stalin was the dictator of the soviet union. his goal was to transform the soviet union from a poor society into a world superpower. he used terror and violence to rule, and under his reign, millions of his own people died in work camps, from starvation due to famine, or by execution. select a detail to support the idea that russian gulags treated prisoners cruelly. prisoners faced choices. prisoners had to work. prisoners tried to escape. prisoners were starving.

In this excerpt, the characters describe the nature of