<h3>My child and I hold hands on the way to school,</h3><h3>And when I leave him at the first-grade door</h3><h3>He cries a little but is brave; he does</h3><h3>Let go. My selfish tears remind me how</h3><h3>I cried before that door a life ago.</h3><h3>I may have had a hard time letting go.</h3>
<h3>Each fall the children must endure together</h3>
<h3>What every child also endures alone:</h3><h3>Learning the alphabet, the integers,</h3><h3>Three dozen bits and pieces of a stuff</h3><h3>So arbitrary, so peremptory,</h3><h3>That worlds invisible and visible</h3>
I would say that the theme that Leo Tolstoy explores in this excerpt from The Death of Ivan Ilyich is that C) human mortality is inevitable, and it is important to live an authentic life.
Answer:
C. It increases the reader's interest and insight into a character.
Explanation:
I hope this helps. =D =^0o0^=
