In this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", the sentences that best shows how Ivan Ilyich struggles with his life and his inability to let go of his past are:
"He was hindered from getting into it by his conviction that his life had been a good one. That very justification of his life held him fast and prevented his moving forward, and it caused him most torment of all."
In this two sentences, we can see that Ivan Ilyich cannot comprehend what is happening to him if his life had been so god. His past happiness does not allow him to accept his current situation. Ivan Ilyich is aware of this incapacity of letting go of his past and feels frustrated and depressed because of it.
The underlined portion of this excerpt serves as the A. Claim for this section of Roosevelt’s argument.
<h3>What is a Claim?</h3>
This refers to the statement or assertion that is made about a particular situation that may be true or untrue until it is verified.
Hence, we can see that from the given text, there is the narration of the taxation and how it would be used for the defense program and how he did not want people to get rich off the program and this emphasizes his claim.
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Your answer is going to be C.
