How does major kovaloff believe his nose came to be removed from his face?

In "The Nose" by Gogol, the protagonist wakes up to realize that his nose is gone. Major Kovaloff cannot explain this to himself, and he is extremely confused and embarrased. He eventually reaches the conclusion that the nose must have left his face due to witchcraft, and he attributes this witchcraft to the mother of a girl he knows. He has been flirting with this girl for a while without proposing, and he assumes that this has infuriated the mother. However, when he contacts her, the mother denies any involvement.

the correct answer is:

this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,

gilgamesh is an epic hero from birth, as he's brought to the world by the hand of several gods who shaped him with the goal of saving humanity. there's a passage from the text that reads "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull". this is a great example that show some of the super-human qualities that the gods gave gilgamesh upon his birth.

as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

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