A Candles Fire ( my poem )
What’s this? a stick of wax with a string I see? The wanting wick turning black as night as it hoards the flames touch as it meets! broken hearted, its afraid. She the lonely candle holding up her light making the darkness flee. The flame dancing in its own light, is it harming the frightened shadows? What is darkness afraid of when they are greater amount than she? Candle lonesome in silence as the darkness fades from her wanting fingers, hot to the touch but loving she can be. She wants a hug but is a clingy thing, everyone would agree. Because if she was a person shed love you unconditionally but after all its just a candles fire, and if candles had feelings everyone would agree, that no one likes being as alone as she.

Amy tried to write her essay but she was distracted by the phone ring the sentence above combines a. an independent clayse and a dependent clause b. two independent clauses c. a dependent clause d. none if the above

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

In 250 words, discuss the ways in which the novel relates to the historical context in which it was published.