The lines that describe the decline and fall of the city are the following:
- These wall-stones are wondrous — calamities crumpled them, these city-sites crashed, the work of giants corrupted.
- The roofs have rushed to earth, towers in ruins.
- The halls of the city once were bright: there were many bath-houses, a lofty treasury of peaked roofs, many troop-roads, many mead-halls filled with human-joys until that terrible chance changed all that.
- Days of misfortune arrived—blows fell broadly—
death seized all those sword-stout men—their idol-fanes were laid waste —the city-steads perished.
- This place has sunk into ruin, been broken into heaps,
Answer:
When a fight nearly broke out between John McNab and Mars Bar, Maniac stepped in and simply led Mars Bar away from the McNab home.
Explanation:
Maniac was instrumental in bringing Mars Bar to the McNab's home for the birthday party. But Mars Bar was uncomfortable being in a white home and the McNab family were uncomfortable having a black in their home. When the McNab boys played the game "blacks and whites", it made Mars Bar very uncomfortable.
Maniac's purpose of inviting Mars Bar to the birthday party was to teach Mars Bar about the white people and to teach the white about the blacks. But it wasn't actualized.
"Maniac Magee" is a story by American author Jerry Spinelli. The story's themes center on racism and inequality. It tells the story of an orphan boy who was looking for an abode and a home in the fictional town of Two Mills. Two Mills is a town which was torn between the East and West, blacks and whites.
The answer would MOST LIKELY be C, since lain is the verb.
A reciprocal pronoun is a pronoun which is used to indicate the number of people that are executing a particular action.
There are two types of reciprocal pronouns, they are 'each other and one another'. Each other is used when the action executed is carry out by two people and one another is used when the action executed is carry out by three or more people.
The answers to the above questions are as follows:
1. Alex and Martha say goodbye to EACH OTHER.
2. The puppies playfully bit ONE ANOTHER on the nose.
3. The mom and dad love EACH OTHER very much.
4. The children fought with ONE ANOTHER on the playground.
