Answer:
Norma's personal desires resulted to her pushing the button, which unknowingly, led to her husband's death.
Explanation:
"Button, Button" is a shorty story written by Richard Matheson. It focuses on the story of a couple, Norma and Arthur, who were having financial troubles. Then, came a day when a mysterious box showed up. A stranger visited the house when Arthur was at work. He gave Norma the key to the box and told her that she could press the box to receive $50,000. However, if she does this, someone she didn't know will die.
Norma didn't listen to her husband when her husband threw the box in the trash. She was focused on <u>obtaining the</u><u> $50,000</u>, without thinking about who will die if she presses the button. Although her husband already told her that an innocent person might die once she does it, she still didn't care.
So, when Norma pressed the button, <em><u>her husband died in a train incident</u></em>. Norma wondered why her husband died and asked the stranger about it. The stranger only answered, <em>"Do you really think you knew your husband?</em>"
Answer:
Vested with sufficient powers
Explanation:
Jay uses the phrase <em>vested with sufficient powers</em><em> </em>to describe the American government (... <em>united under one </em><em><u>federal government</u></em><em>, </em><em>vested with sufficient powers</em>...).
The phrase <em>intelligent and well-informed</em> describes Americans. The phrases <em>uniformly entertained</em> and <em>erroneous opinion</em> are not used to describe other words.
Answer:
Langston Hughes' message about group pressure in "Salvation" is that B. It can cause people to make decisions they could later regret.
Explanation:
Langston Hughes told his story about how he attended a church revival meeting with his aunt when he was 12 years old.
In his memoir, he recalls going for that revival full of faith about God but leaving the place doubting God.
He felt pressured by his aunt to receive salvation at that revival but ends up lying about his feelings and loses faith in God. He was the last person that was "waiting to be saved" and so he lied because of group pressure so as not to "hold up the procession"
Answer:
Explanation:
by relating to them so it makes it easy for readers to understand them
