DISCUSS: Norma in "Button, Button" and the barber in "Lather and Nothing Else" are both faced with a moral problem. Imagine that Norma and the barber have a conversation before they make their final decisions. What advice do you think each character would give to the other? Why?

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. isn’t this like condemning socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock? isn’t this like condemning jesus because his unique god consciousness and never ceasing devotion to god’s will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion? what rhetorical technique does martin luther king employ in this excerpt from “letter from birmingham jail”? select all that apply. allusion extended metaphor figurative language simile