Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this poem. read this line from "the river merchant's wife: a letter," which describes the speaker and her husband when they are first married. called to, a thousand times, i never looked back. how does this line and the previous lines' descriptions of the speaker's bashfulness when she was first married develop the idea that time and maturity can allow love to develop between two people? a. they indicate that it is impossible to predict how people will change or grow over time. b. they show that the speaker's husband must also change if he expects their love to grow and last. c. they show the speaker's feelings and behavior at the start of her marriage, when she was young and less mature. d. they suggest that the speaker has fallen in love with her husband now that they are married.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.