<em>Mr. Pneumonia was not what you would call a chivalric old gentleman</em>
Mr pneumonia character utilizes personification of death, a ravager who acts like the Grim Reaper and ravages the quiet street of Greenwich Village who however,saves the life of a young neighboring artist, dying of pneumonia by giving her the will to live.
The lines that describe the decline and fall of the city are the following:
These wall-stones are wondrous — calamities crumpled them, these city-sites crashed, the work of giants corrupted.
The roofs have rushed to earth, towers in ruins.
The halls of the city once were bright: there were many bath-houses, a lofty treasury of peaked roofs, many troop-roads, many mead-halls filled with human-joys until that terrible chance changed all that.
Days of misfortune arrived—blows fell broadly—
death seized all those sword-stout men—their idol-fanes were laid waste —the city-steads perished.
This place has sunk into ruin, been broken into heaps,
D. Jaycee's hard work paid off when he received As in all his classes, making his parents very proud of him.
Explanation:
Answer choice D is the correct answer because it shows the resolution/result of Jaycee's conflict. Jaycee's conflict was that he felt challenged by the other people in his classes who were doing very well since middle school. His solution was to spend extra time studying, and all that hard work paid off by him getting straight As and parent approval.
The last one. They can't go on and they can't stay where they are. They've got to be on their home asteroid in two weeks which we are to think that there is not enough time to go to earth to get a cruiser and return home in that. Nor can they stay where they are. They know that the miners have taken every ship available. They're caught in a net and there doesn't seem to be any solution.
One is just a statement of the way one of the characters looked. It is a quick observation about the way he looked. "Lean and Hungry" is another way to describe him. If there was a way of getting a ship, the way he looks tells us that he would have found a way.
Two is just a fact that is part of the setting. He's at the biggest port on Mars. Nothing there. How the 2 characters feel about that is more important than where they were. We just have to know that if there is nothing in that city, there's going to be nothing anywhere else on Mars.
Three is close, but four is better because it is more emotional. The second best answer is Three.
