Read the passage from "By the Waters of Babylon." After a while, I knew that my belly was hungry. I could have
hunted for my meat, but I did not hunt. It is known that the
gods did not hunt as we do-they got their food from
enchanted boxes and jars. Sometimes these are still found
in the Dead Places-once, when I was a child and foolish, I
opened such a jar and tasted it and found the bod sweet.
But my father found out and punished me for it strictly, for,
often, that food is death. Now, though, I had long gone past
what was forbidden, and I entered the likeliest towers,
looking for the food of the gods.
I found it at last in the ruins of a great temple in the mid-city.
A mighty temple it must have been, for the roof was painted
like the sky at night with its stars-that much I could see,
though the colors were faint and dim. It went down into great
caves and tunnels-perhaps they kept their slaves there.
But when I started to climb down, I heard the squeaking of
How does the resolution in this passage help develop the
theme about rules?
When the narrator decides not to hunt, he recognizes that
the rules of the gods were better than the rules of his
people.
When the narrator enters the temple, he recognizes that
he no longer fears the gods, regardless of what the rules
of his people say.
When the narrator avoids the rats, he realizes that he is
going against the teachings of his people, but also doing
what is necessary for his survival.
When the narrator decides to ignore his father's words
and eat the food of the gods, he realizes that he is learning
to make his own choices.

D. When the narrator decides to ignore his father’s words and eat the food of the gods, he realizes that he is learning to make his own choices.

Explanation:

The narrator decides to eat the food of the gods because he is hungry, which an example of one making his own choices.

C is wrong because the passage says nothing about rats relating to the teachings of his people. He's avoiding them simply because "rats are unclean," he stated.

B is wrong because even though the passage implied that the narrator's peoples' teachings portray the gods as scary, it did not state that the narrator feared the gods.

A is wrong because the passage doesn't talk about any rules from any gods.

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in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.