1. Lines 1-2: What does it mean to be “allied”? What might “allied with grew” suggest about the story’s theme? What evidence in lines 1-2 support this inference

2. Lines 15-17: How does the author use personification in these lines? How does this use of personification reveal the narrator’s feelings about plants

3. Lines 59-66: What examples in these lines reveal the narrative’s essential message? How do they reveal it?

4. Lines 69-71: What figurative expression is in these lines? What comparison is being made? How does this support the theme?

5. Line 98-105: Analyze line 105 and explain what the author means by “carry a bucket”. How does this further reinforce the story’s moral/lesson?

#1

Explanation:Lines 1-2: What does it mean to be “allied”? What might “allied with grew” suggest about the story’s theme? What evidence in lines 1-2 support this inference

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing

bc

explanation:

because it crosses through the circle twice