Read the following passage:
the year is 2186. since the polar ice caps melted several
decades ago, humans have been struggling to survive on a
planet completely covered by ocean. they subsist only on
seafood and fight over scarce fuel resources to power their
watercrafts. those who are able to produce fresh water
rule over those who cannot. i was the last of these
oppressed in my colony. now that i have run out of metal
parts to trade for water, i too will be gone soon. i am too
weak to dive anymore and only hope that my message
lives on long after i am gone.
which statement describes the aesthetic impact that the author of this
passage most likely intends?

a. to give readers a sense of despair that this society is so
dysfunctional

b. to convey that the narrator has given up on fighting for survival

c. to develop the idea of survival of the fittest in a dystopian society

d. to cause readers to feel confused by the balance of power in this
society

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich suggests that ivan ilyich aspired to be part of the elite in society from a young age? a.ivan ilyich was  le phenix de la famille  as people said.  he was neither as cold and formal as his elder brother nor as wild as the younger, but was a happy mean between them—an intelligent polished, lively and agreeable man.b.  even when he was at the school of law he was just what he remained for the rest of his life:   a capable, cheerful, good-natured, and sociable man, though strict in the fulfillment of what he considered to be his duty:   and he considered his duty to be what was so considered by those in authority.c.neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them.d.all the enthusiasms of childhood and youth passed without leaving much trace on him; he succumbed to sensuality, to vanity, and latterly among the highest classes to liberalism, but always within limits which his instinct unfailingly indicated to him as correct.e.at school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them;