What is a central idea in "The White Umbrella"? A: The narrator competes with another music student to determine who has more talent.

B: The narrator feels fortunate to receive a gift from her music teacher.

C: The narrator feels guilty for wishing her music teacher was her mother.

D: The narrator tries to convince her sister to be more accepting of their mother.
Help, please

B: The narrator feels fortunate to receive a gift from her music teacher.

Explanation:

compare & contrast informative essay/speech

when speaking or writing for the sole purpose of providing information in order to give audience members a good basis for making a decision, you would present an informative speech or essay.   because you wouldn’t want to be persuading the audience by arguing for one type of exercise over the other, you wouldn’t choose a persuasive/argumentative technique.   to fairly, and without bias, present information about the pros and cons of each type exercise, a compare/contrast, informative speech/essay would be the best bet.

the answer should be:

the intervention of the supernatural gives gilgamesh hope that he will defeat humbaba.