The first one. All of the other examples are talking about things price-wise, whereas a cheap excuse is a very bad excuse.
Hamlet refers to Denmark as a prison because he feels trapped inside the city, that he knows he can't escape Claudius The King. Yet he also knows that whatever he says to Guildenstern & Rosencrantz will be repeated again to the King.(Recall that the King sent them to spy on Hamlet) Hamlet is basically indirectly sending a message to the King, telling him that he known he's being kept a prisoner in the city of Denmark
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow.
I don’t know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat.
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog.
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly.
Perhaps she’ll die
It is important for Bruno to keep hearing Shmuel's voice in order to not believe Gretel's opinion on him having an imaginary friend and that he has been talking to himself all this time.
Explanation:
- Bruno wanted to be a soldier as soon as he grew up just like his father but Shmuel was against that thought of Bruno quoting the statement "You don't know what it is like here".
- The story revolves around Bruno portraying his daily experiences through words to Shmuel.
- Shmuel talks about how the striped pajamas indicated the prisoners of the facility and that these were the only clothes they were given to wear.
- Gretel never believes the story of Bruno.
