Actually, there is a lot of pitfalls in the credibility in this argument. There are a lot of websites in the Internet with information about the so called French Invasion that occurred on the 24th of june, 1812.
The French Invasion is also known in Russia as The Patriotic War of 1812 and in France is known as the Russian Campaign. Try to search under these alternative names and you might find more information.
Basically you have a motif of something eg fruit. Then that motif gets repeated at the end. So even if you have a contrasting beginning and end you can still have like a sentence that repeats cyclically eg ‘humanity can be saved’ or something like that.
A theme or motif or phrase etc that recurs or goes back to the beginning, at the end
cyclical structure is like when when the end situations are in some way the same as they are at the beginning.
It can foreshadow or make you sort of guess what might happen at the end
Answer:
Then, one spring, a strange blight crept over the area, and everything began to change. Some evil spell had settled on the community; mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens, and the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was the shadow of death. The farmers told of much illness among their families
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I think the answer is number 2
