Which sentence in this story from aesop’s fables portrays the start of the rising action? a slave named androcles once escaped from his master and fled to the forest. as he was wandering about there, he came upon a lion lying down, moaning and groaning. at first he turned to flee, but finding that the lion did not pursue him, he turned back and went up to him. as he came near, the lion put out his paw, which was all swollen and bleeding, and androcles found that a huge thorn had got into it and was causing all the pain. he pulled out the thorn and bound up the paw of the lion, who was soon able to rise and lick the hand of androcles like a dog. then the lion took androcles to his cave, and every day used to bring him meat from which to live. but shortly afterwards, both androcles and the lion were captured, and the slave was sentenced to be thrown to the lion, after the latter had been kept without food for several days. the emperor and all his court came to see the spectacle, and androcles was led out into the middle of the arena. soon the lion was let loose from his den and rushed bounding and roaring toward his victim. but as soon as he came near to androcles he recognized his friend, fawned upon him, and licked his hands like a friendly dog. the emperor, surprised at this, summoned androcles to him, who told him the whole story. whereupon the slave was pardoned and freed, and the lion let loose to his native forest. gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

"The Emperor and all his Court came to see the spectacle, and Androcles was led out into the middle of the arena. Soon the lion was let loose from his den and rushed bounding and roaring toward his victim. "

Explanation:

The rising action is an element of a plot that introduces a situation that will lead to the climax of the story. Generally, rising action develops from a suspenseful situation that makes the reader apprehensive.

The upward action in this excerpt happens as Androcles is thrown into the arena and a hungry lion rushes toward him. The reader is apprehensive at this point, because the plot shows a tense situation where the reader does not know what will happen. The moment the lion rushes toward Androcles is the part of the plot that introduces the climax of the story, which is the moment when the Lion recognizes that Androcles is the friend who helped him when he was injured.

The Emperor and all his Court came to see the spectacle, and Androcles was led out into the middle of the arena. Soon the lion was let loose from his den and rushed bounding and roaring toward his victim. But as soon as he came near to Androcles he recognized his friend, fawned upon him, and licked his hands like a friendly dog.

Explanation:

with mrs. linde, nora reveals her insensitivity and lack of shame about the forgery she committed. she implies that mrs. linde has obviously aged since they last met 10 years earlier, which accounts for nora’s inability to recognize her old friend. although nora seems sympathetic to mrs. linde’s plight, she can’t seem to control herself from boasting about her three children, her husband’s recent promotion, and how good she feels to finally have some money to spend. in a way, she seems to be flaunting her good fortune in front of mrs. linde who, deprived of all these benefits, has come to ask nora for . it is also through her interactions with mrs. linde that we realize something deeper lies under nora’s seemingly childish exterior. she reveals the secret of her forgery to mrs. linde and seems to see herself as quite resourceful for having done it.

in the company of dr. rank, nora is freer than she is with her own husband. she openly laughs with joy at knowing that all the other bank employees will be under her husband’s control. she offers dr. rank a macaroon, apparently forgetting that he knows she is forbidden to eat them. she then quickly covers for herself by claiming that mrs. linde brought them. nora seems much more assertive and free with these other characters, as well as unabashedly willing to scheme, lie, and justify her transgressions as altruistic.  

krogstad provides an interesting parallel to nora. like nora, he too is guilty of committing forgery, for which torvald condemns him and decides to fire him. although krogstad is a man and nora a woman, their crimes of forgery unite them. in fact, krogstad might represent what nora would be like if she were a man and were not strictly scrupulous like her husband is. for example, she tells mrs. linde that "a barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases; and naturally torvald has never been willing to do that." perhaps nora would have delved into the unsavory, given how opposite she is to her husband. krogstad's is also the only harsh voice of reality that nora is forced to hear, and that is because he blackmails her for her regaining his job at the bank. finally, torvald’s reaction to krogstad’s forgery seems to foreshadow his harsh and cold reaction to nora’s forgery.