Answer:
A. Helpful and friendly, but strange.
Explanation:
Simon symbolizes goodness. He is a gentle-hearted person. He takes the time to feed the littluns in Lord of the Flies. Simon's strange encounter was with the pig head, when he was having hallucinations. The pig head just represented the evil that was manifesting within everyone on the island.
Answer:
B. preserve an institutionalized tradition that imposed limits on its participants.
Explanation:
The main idea of <em>The Lottery</em> is how societies often preserve traditions even after they have lost any reason for existing and even become damaging to the people. This is the case of the lottery which is held in the town. The lottery has no particular purpose or benefit. It is simply maintained and repeated because of an extreme desire to respect and maintain tradition, and to limit the behaviour and liberty of people.
The sentence "We are also told that it is on account of this happening that people who have loved each other very much sometimes quarrel and are no longer friends." best indicates the story's message or theme.
Characterization is the use of literary techniques to reveal the nature of a character
