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bogdanovich [222]
4 years ago
6

Read the excerpt from "The Bet" by Anton Chekov and answer the question.

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1 answer:
vfiekz [6]4 years ago
8 0

B) "'If you mean that in earnest,' said the young man, 'I'll take the bet, but I would stay not five but fifteen years.'" (Paragraph 7)

This line best advances the plot. It takes the conversation about the death penalty versus lifelong imprisonment to the next level. It brings it from a hypothetical situation into one that could actually happen. The young man agrees to live in solitary confinement to show that lifelong imprisonment would be better. He even creates more tension when he says that he'll stay in confinement three times longer than was originally suggested.

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