1. When has it been helpful to learn that someone else experienced something similar to
you? Explain why it was helpful to hear someone else's story. This could be a story you read or
saw in a movie or heard from someone you know personally

its helpful 90% of the time knowing someone else has made it through what you currently are going through.

Explanation:

knowing you aren't alone in a situation is probably the most calming thing. you could have a mid-life crisis and simply knowing someone close to you has gone through something similar, and managed to get through it, is soothing for the mind and the soul. it helps us by realizing we can make it even if it feels like we hit rock bottom. their words can help us lift ourselves out of the hole and provide us with information we need to move forward and prosper.

the answer is emerged from.

orpheus descended to hades, the world of the death to rescue eurydice. no mortal had ever done this before him, he survived because he was protected by the gods. the word "underworld" gives us a clue, he emerged from it like a whale emerges form sea for exemple.

anyone who was dealing with communism in soviet union in his time had an ideal picture of equality, freedom, the struggle of the working class for a better future, the success of the aristocracy's overthrow and the emancipation of subjugation.   however, anyone who would go to soviet union to see the functioning of the communist system, would be convinced that it was about sad people, about everyday bad life, about the brutal attitude of communist leaders, about ill obsession to completely exterminate every thought on aristocracy. thus, orwell wanted to show all the absurdity, the brutality of the system, the unbearable rule of suspicious morality, the ignorant people who try to play professionally.

the answers are: b. and e.