In birches, the author uses the line "like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun" to describe;
a. children playing in the woods
b. a childhood memory of the summertime
c. the shape of the trees after an ice storm
d. the feeling of cobwebs on the face of a boy

the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

explanation:

i think it may be b, i'm not exactly too sure on this. but b seems to make more sense.