C) "During the 1300s, a secret passage helped free an English king who was taken captive by his enemies."
Explanation:
<u>A topic sentence must convey the idea of the whole paragraph.</u> <u>In that sense the paragraph here works on the idea of secret passages being historically significant</u> in the important events that changed the course of history.
Thus either the first sentence of the paragraph or this sentence fit the description stated above. Out of all the options given this statement directly refers to the theme and thus is the topic sentence.
Answer:
A
Explanation:
There's an excerpt from the previous paragraph that reads as follows, "At the funeral, Joe Willow’s family cried, and old Fannie even fainted at the grave site when they started to cover him. "
This excerpt suggests that he's currently mourning the death of his friend one last time to the point of unconsciousness, probably saying a lot to himself in the process in order to cope with the fact of his loss.
the answer to number 2 is 3 beats
A theme in this story is about the relationship between the mother and the grown son, Julian and there is obvious tension between them and it appears mostly to be over the yearning of the mother for the days when her family were large landowners with slaves and how the son feels guilty about this attitude of his mother regarding slavery and tries to atone for it by sitting beside African Americans on the bus.