Choices:
<span>“It’s the fish that sailors fear above all others . . . .”
“When Stefano Roi was twelve years old . . . .”
“‘Despite my forty years, . . . I believe I still have good eyesight.”
". . . as soon as he was a man, he found a dignified and well-paying position at an emporium . . . ."
The irony in "The Colomber" by Dino Buzzati is evident in this detail:
</span><span>“It’s the fish that sailors fear above all others . . . .”
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It is believed to bring bad luck and doom the one who saw it. However, the Colomber appeared to Stefano because it was tasked to give him a pearl that will bring him good luck in life.
B. it states the main idea i.e. the topic of the essay
What they share the most is the fact that they are Survivors, although they survived quite different experiences, they both managed to stay alive despite all odds. Juliane Koepcke survived a plane crash and eleven days in the Amazon jungle, Bill Garleb was a prisoner in the Philippines during World War II.