Answer:
“In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through.” - publisher summary excerpt
Explanation:
The answer is notice key words and details.
1. The protagonist's love for each other --as unselfish love is the greatest of all things.
2. The comparison between Della and the Queen of Sheba-- Allusion uses biblical figures and Queen of Sheba is a biblical figure
3. Young did not consider her quilts as art pieces.-- She just burnt it so it doesn't mean anything to her.
4.Protest the conditions of African Americans in Alabama
5.The value of things lies in making them.
6. The value of work
7. Showy and vulgar
8. predicament
9. I just read O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi."
10. Leonardo da Vinci, inventor, painter, and poet, is considered a true genius.
