The following question refers to “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe. How is the narrator freed from his prison?

The prison walls are destroyed by an earthquake.
The French army takes over the city.
The fire started by his captors burns through the prison walls.
The judge commutes his sentence.

As soon as hitler took over, he began persecuting jews. what does persecuting mean in this context

The travels of marco polo.what is the author’s purpose for writing this text?

Read the excerpt from flannery o'connor's "the life you save may be your own although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter and she had never seen mr. shiftlet before, she could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of. his left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly. which phrase connects these characters to the southern gothic genre? half an arm she had never seen his left coat sleeve folded up