In the first chapter we establish how this civilization functions. The boys shot down over the
tropical island where the novel takes place, so you may visualize this island, whatever you feel like picturing there, it doesn't just have to be the thing written. I would for example imagine the smell of the sea. The boys are between civilization and savagery here and that is the main conflict in the novel.
Ambivalent: having mixed feelings about something
Incendiary: used or adapted for setting property on fire
Cerebral: betraying or characterized by the use of the intellect rather than intuition or instinct
Culpable: deserving blame or censure
So the answer is Option C).
Answer:
1)She has butterflies in her stomach. She was checked her belongings and checking information about the paints and brushes.
2) She suddenly remembered what her mom said 'Believe in yourself". that phrase built up her confidence. She went and sat in her chair near the canvas and started painting.
3) She was happy with the result. Then, she handed the painting to the collecter who collected the painting and gave them to the judges
4) She was scared that, her painting would be humiliated. After 10 mins, the results were announced and she was the winner. She went over the moon with happiness.
[...] But the Man looks at the daughter and daughter tells the man to choose the door to the right. Then the apprehensive man looks the king right in the eye and refuses to choose any door. The surprised king asks the man why he refuses to obey the orders of his king and his princess.
The man promptly replies that because of selfishness and a concern for the princess's happiness he is unable to escape one of the doors. This is because if he chooses the door where the tiger is, he will be killed and his soul will wander the land without peace, until the love of his life, the princess, meets him in the Hereafter. However, if he chooses the door where a beautiful maiden is placed, he will have to marry a woman with whom he is not in love, leaving three unhappy lives. His life, for not marrying the one he loves, the life of his wife, for being married to a man who does not love her, and the life of the princess, for seeing her love with another woman.
So instead of choosing between the doors, he chooses to ask, dearly, that the king grant her the daughter's hand in marriage, thus preventing three souls from living in suffering.
The king, moved by the man's words and seeing his daughter's happiness, has no choice but to allow marriage.
