Read the poem which follows and select the emotions and imagery of an outsider's perspective of death that also appear in The Sweet Hereafter.

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anonymous · Answer

"Every Death Is Magic from the Enemy to Be Avenged" by Brooks Haxton

When fever burned the last light out of my daughter's eyes,
I swore to find and kill the ones to blame. Men
must mount the long boat in the dark with spears.
At dawn, where the flowering spicebush hid my scent,
I crouched. A young wife, newborn slung across her chest,
came first for spring water. She stooped. My god,
for vengeance, spoke her secret name inside my ear. Her god
stepped back with no scream, his right hand at his mouth,
the knuckles clenched between the pointed teeth.

anonymous · Answer

Answers: 3 of them are correct

		
A. The idea of secrets being told
		
 
B. The idea of assigning blame
		

C. The image of the flowering bush
	
 D. The image of the pointy teeth
		
 E. The image of the newborn