Read this excerpt from The Secret Garden. PLSPLS HELP
"He was a sour young man and got no good of all his money and big place till he was married."

. . . "She was a sweet, pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over to get her a blade o' grass she wanted."

Which theme from the novel is apparent in this passage?

Grief can make people do strange things.

Curiosity is a natural part of childhood.

Secrets are sweeter when shared between friends.

Love opens a person's heart.

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme