Read the passage below (from Gertrude Stein's Three Lives) with accuracy and fluency. Discuss any unfamiliar words from the passage and what strategies you used to understand them.
Lena?s German voice when she knocked and called the family in the morning was as awakening, as soothing, and as
appealing, as a delicate soft breeze in midday, summer. She stood in the hallway every morning a long time in her
unexpectant and unsuffering German patience calling to the young ones to get up. She would call and wait a long time
and then call again, always even, gentle, patient, while the young ones fell back often into that precious, tense, last bit of
sleeping that gives a strength of joyous vigor in the young, over them that have come to the readiness of middle age, in
their awakening.

gilgamesh is an epic hero from birth, as he's brought to the world by the hand of several gods who shaped him with the goal of saving humanity. there's a passage from the text that reads "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull". this is a great example that show some of the super-human qualities that the gods gave gilgamesh upon his birth.

as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

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the correct answer is (a) . answer should be simple, clear and brief.