The conflict in the short story Condensed milk is survival in a Gulag, hunger, and desperation.
Explanation:
The story follows Shestakov, a camp geologist who asks a miner to help him escape the Gulag. The miner knows the task is impossible but because he is hungry he agrees to do it in exchange for 2 cans of condensed milk.
Many prisoners attempt to escape with Shestakov but are captured and some of them are killed.
In this story, the miner walks into sure death just to have condensed milk once. The desperation and perennial hunger of the gulags pushed him to trade his life for some food that is usually a staple in normal people's lives.
This hunger and desperation is the main conflict of the story.
Answer:
B
Explanation:
Since the goal is to inform the reader, the author uses factual evidence, subheadings, and diagrams to enlighten or educate the reader about the topic they are writing about. This helps the reader understand the topic and creates space for them to create their opinion about the topic.
Answer:
B. Oftentimes, our family travels to monuments and museums.
Explanation:
Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which contradictory words are placed in the same sentence. These contradictory or opposite ideas bring a literary effect and helps the writer present the ideas more exclusively.
The sentence in option (b) presents an example of an oxymoron. The words that present the opposite or contradicting ideas are 'often' and 'times'. The family here travels to monuments and museums 'oftentimes' that brings the meaning of 'often' and 'times'.
