PLEASE HELP STUCK ON THIS QUESTION Part A

A theme of the story is that in times of need, people benefit more from actions than from promises of support.

How does Jerome develop this theme?

He seeks advice from his mother, rather than working through his problem alone.

He chooses to go directly to assist those in need, rather than ask about how to help.

He sends several messages a day to a friend who has recently suffered a tragedy.

He brings his teammates together to find ways to benefit others in their community.

Question 2
Part B

Which quotation from the text best supports the response to Part A?

"He wondered how many people would actually show up to help out and how many would simply hope that enough others did."

"Jerome thought for several moments, aware that his mother had paused her sorting to give him her full attention."

"The morning after the rugby championship, Jerome reached for his phone, prepared to enjoy the usual flood of photos that tended to appear following a game."

"Jerome wandered through the morning with the weight of Martin’s news crowding his thoughts."

Which sentence would not be appropriate for an essay or formal speech? a) most of the titles of faulkner's novels are references to the bible or to the works of william shakespeare. eliminate b) some critics believe that faulkner's novel the sound and the fury is the best novel of his entire career. c) the novels of william faulkner are way too hard to read, yo, filled with all these frustrating changing narrators! d) william faulkner traveled all the way from his home state of mississippi to sweden in order to make his nobel prize acceptance speech.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

Gloom and glory what does the speaker suddenly see and hear in the poem?