1# In the second paragraph, children put stones in their pockets and make piles of stones in the town square, which seems like children playing around until the stones’ true purpose becomes clear at the end of the story.
2# Irony is the basic theme used in the story. Outside was expressed as "a sunny day", but eventually the housewife came across a horrible death (page 715). Two people running the town, Graves and Summers have ironic names.
#3 The lesson learned is there is a danger of going along with tradition
<span>Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an example of D. interpretative literature. Interpetative literature has the goal to make us rethink our lives after reading what is happening in that particular work of literature. Escapist literature is there to help us escape our own pitiful lives. This is not a perfect short story because it's a play - not a short story. So, this leaves us with only D as the correct answer.</span>
The main idea is basically that anyone, no matter what they're believed to have done, deserves to be considered by a non-biased group of citizens.
Vanished/ gone are swapped