"Wouldn’t they have saved her if she hadn’t been good?” demanded the bigger of the small girls. It was exactly the question that
the bachelor had wanted to ask. "Well, yes,” admitted the aunt lamely, "but I don’t think they would have run quite so fast to her help if they had not liked her so much.”
Which theme does this passage best support?
Pride goes before a fall.
People should try to be good.
Wouldn’t they have saved her if she hadn’t been good?” demanded the bigger of the small girls. It was exactly the question that the bachelor had wanted to ask.
"Well, yes,” admitted the aunt lamely, "but I don’t think they would have run quite so fast to her help if they had not liked her so much.”
D. If others pay the tax which is demanded of me, from a sympathy with the State, they do but what they have already done in their own case, or rather they abet injustice to a greater extent than the State requires.
I guess it refers to Beowulf. He is destined to be a great force that would
defeat all those who would challenge him. It also represents what heroism is all
about. Also emphasizes what it means in
one’s culture where people are evaluated by their forefathers. In terms of heroism, even those without
fathers have the potential to be a hero.
