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OpenStudy (josedavid):

How does the author create a sense of sadness about the situation? He sets the story on a rainy day. He gives Gregor an ordinary room. He makes Gregor a textile salesman. He has Gregor waking from a bad dream. please help me please

OpenStudy (josedavid):

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows: from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1)One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. (2)"What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table �Samsa was a travelling salesman � and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. (3)Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Can you only choose one?

OpenStudy (josedavid):

yes

OpenStudy (josedavid):

i think is d

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I got you

OpenStudy (anonymous):

So the answer would be A.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Waking from a bad dream does not imply sadness. But when you add rain to a story, it can add a sense of foreshadowing that something bad will happen or a sense of sadness.

OpenStudy (josedavid):

is a ummm

OpenStudy (josedavid):

From Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1)One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. (2)"What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table �Samsa was a travelling salesman � and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. (3)Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before. In this passage, Gregor is dressed and ready for battle is well rested has developed a stomach ache has transformed into a bug i think is d

OpenStudy (anonymous):

For number 1defintally A. It is the one that happens to make the most out of the other 3

OpenStudy (anonymous):

It is D.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I agree. Number 1 is A as I said @josedavid

OpenStudy (josedavid):

Read this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and then answer the question that follows: (1) Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war ... testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated ... can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. (2) We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate ... we cannot consecrate ... we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. What does President Lincoln clearly state by the line in bold? We have come to move forward as a nation after an unjust war. We have come to pay respect to the people who died in this battle. We have decided to change the course of the war for the future. We have decided to forget this battle because it was too bloody.

OpenStudy (anitas.):

I would say it is B "We have come to pay respect to the people who died in this battle."

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Can you post what line is in bold?

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