I think the correct answer is: They are both willing to risk their lives.
If we understand the word "willing" as ready to do something, this means they both are ready to risk their lives. We could think that the correct answer is "They are both helpless and weak" but in the first excerpt although he seems weak, he has been able to get food for his family and escape from the gamekeepers, even hitting them with the slingshot.
What they have in common is that although they are concious that their actions can kill them they are determined to do them. In the first excerpt hunting in the woods is forbidden and if someone gets caught doing it he would be "even killed". The kid has no option but to risk his life to get some food: "but my family had to eat one way or another."
The second excerpt refers to a pirate's slave, he has a miserable life and it could get worse. He is determined to scape or die trying, we can see that he has nothing else to loose, "I would rather die than spend another minute on that ship."
The correct answer for 1 is <span>D) The reader and the speaker share the same essence.
The reader and the speaker and all other people on the planet share the same essence. This is a very transcendentalist thought that we are all connected and are one and the same soul and should not take that lightly. Here ti isn't about physical even though atoms are a physical thing.
The correct answer for 2 is </span><span>D) Loafing is permissible, especially when studying nature.
Loafing didn't have a negative connotation back then, it simply referred to relaxing and dwelling on something, it wasn't just about being lazy. Loafing is permissible and his watching the plants is making him find a deeper meaning in life and in nature.
The correct answer for 3 is </span><span>D) These lines suggest that national identity is forged through having deep ancestral roots in a place.
His national identity of loving America which is also seen in his other poems stems form the idea that his forefathers and their forefathers were born there and they all shared the same experience of the land and nature and it is now his thing. </span>
A bystander but he also stood up for him so he is also considered someone who stood up for the victim
