Read this section of the story: She fell to sleep listening out for the rumble in the garbage bins that was a sure sign bears were visiting. Bears had become such a part of her life that she couldn't remember what it was like before.

What is the main function of this text in the narrative? (1 point)

Group of answer choices

Provide the story's climax

Develop the setting

Develop character

Hint at the resolution

Tobias wolff most likely named his short story "mortals" because the story explores the theme of people coming to terms with the idea that one day they too will die. wanting to find out what their loved ones really think of them. achieving immortalit by being "big people" while they are alive. hoping that they will have accomplished something before they die.

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase "dying fall" most likely mean in both excerpts

The events in animal farm mirror the real-life events of the russian revolution and the birth of the soviet union. this aspect of the novel is an example of which literary technique? irony parody reversal ridicule