2. PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
efine
ing
OA "By frequently calling upon their strengths, people can
build up natural buffers against misfortune and negative
emotions" ( Paragraph 4)
OB “Psychologists tend to be concerned with taking a
negative 8 person, and helping him get to negative 2" (
Paragraph 8)
OC "While our quality of life has increased dramatically over
that time, and we've become richer, we're in an epidemic
of depression" ( Paragraph 10)
OD “Think of these people as hobbyists who become so
immersed in their work that time ceases to exist'" (
Paragraph 17)
d.
ough

the characters are fiction but they are based off of people that were reaky in that situation

a. unlikely

for improbable?

when connie willis was 12 years old, her mother died. in january of 2003, willis was interviewed for locus magazine. she recognized that death is a major issue in her writing, specially because the vacuous and appalling things that people tend to say in order to support you when someone you loved dies.

but there is another aspect that i have learned from connie willis's quote. in his famous work "danubio", the italian writer claudio magris describes literature as house removals. some messages reach us, other messages get lost in the labyrinth. those messages which are our inheritance teach us how to live and how to die, how to love and how to hate, how to laugh and how to cry. i think that tales really shape us if we listen to them. maybe through the stories we read we learn how to emphatize with others, knowing that the bells tolls for every each of us.