Read the following sentence from paragraph 26 of the story. He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it
did so to their sorrow.
How does this sentence best illustrate the theme of the text?
It illustrates that believing in the power of the monkey's paw could ruin people's
lives.
O
It suggests that we all have control over our own fate and using the monkey's
paw will not change fate.
It implies that the monkey's paw can rule people's lives and fates.
o It shows that nobody has control of their own fate without the monkey's paw.

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.