<span>The selection from Melville’s novel MobyDick portrays nature as _____.
The correct answer is: </span>powerful and mysterious
The novel centers on man's multi-faceted interaction with nature, whether by trying to control or tame it; understand it; profit from it; or, in Ahab<span>’s case, defeat it. The book implies that nature, much like the </span>whale<span>, is an impersonal and inscrutable phenomenon. Man tends to treat nature as an entity with motives or emotions, when in fact nature is ultimately indifferent to man.</span>
Answer:
D.
Explanation:
'Loveliest of Trees, the cherry now' is a poem written by A. E. Housman. The poem is about making the most of the present moment, adoring the nature and take pleasure in it during this short lifespan.
The line in which the theme that <em>people should take pleasure in nature during their short lives </em>is found in option D. The line in option D the speaker states that to take pleasure in nature fifty years is little. The speaker, while writing the poem is twenty-years old and expresses that as average human life is seventy years, he is left with only fifty years to take pleasure in nature, which the speaker considers is less time.
Therefore, option D is correct.
Start by introducing the idea, as if this person is somebody who doesn’t know much about it. Then give three examples each on how it’s been both positive and negative, then add a transitioning sentence to be able to start your next paragraph.
A round or dynamic character would probably be your answer for one that changes throughout the story