The question is asking which answer choice DOES NOT make sense about a theme of a story.
You could use choice A, C, and D as definitions for theme. So your answer that does not fit is B.
Answer = B. The theme of a short story is the plot- the actions that lead up to the story's resolution.
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Answer:
The flowers in the garden grow
swaying in the field so low
everyone is planting them
the flowers, 'o thee is a gem
the flowers speak to me so high
but nothing compares to the little lullaby: LA LA LA!
the baby sleeps along the road
the flowers sway so very cold
flowers, o flowers you make me happy
and nothing is like you: so very snappy
Explanation:
The fourth line says that the flowers are a gem, and uses a metaphor. The fifth uses personification and says the flowers are speaking. The last line uses a simile and onomatopoeia in the words, LA, LA, and LA.
"Through the Tunnel" is a short story written by British author Doris Lessing, originally published in the American weekly magazine The New Yorker in 1955.
The story tells the adventures of Jerry, a young English boy, and his widowed mother who are on a vacation at a beach to which they have come many times in the past. Jerry and his mother try to please each other and not to impose too many demands. The mother is “determined to be neither possessive nor lacking in devotion,” and Jerry, in turn, acts from an “unfailing impulse of contrition — a sort of nobility.”
<u>In "Through the Tunnel", the actual passage through the rock tunnel becomes a coming-of-age passage for Jerry. Having accomplished his challenge, he returns to his mother's company, satisfied and confident of the future.</u> He does not feel it necessary to tell his mother of the monumental obstacle that he has overcome.
The tunnel in the story can best be said to be symbolic of the:
obstacles in life that lead to maturity