Which detail from "The Magic Prison" foreshadows that the prison is becoming a palace again?At last he heard, or thought he heard, a faint sound. He listened eagerly. It seemed to be some tiny creature not far from him trying to move about." C"One day, soon after this, the little bird fluttered up against the windowpane and beat his wings against it in a vain effort."

B"Just then he heard a harsh, grating sound, as of rusty bolts sliding with difficulty out of their sockets; and then faint rays of light, not wider than a hair, began to shine between the heavy mirrors."

A"The next day he was so hungry that he began to eat one of the old withered apples, and as he bit it he thought of the bird, his fellow prisoner."

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

What predictions can be made about the future availability of freshwater within the southeast united stares ?

How historical events such as the civil war influenced the american literature