Which best describes how the author of "the glass of milk" created an original theme while drawing from classic tradition?

a. rojas creates a theme of blind love by drawing on the theme in romeo and juliet.

b. rojas's theme of friendship is drawn from the theme in the story of moses and his brother.

c. the theme of the negative power of greed is drawn from the theme of hamlet.

d. rojas creates a theme of having too much pride from the oedipus rex story.

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The correct answer is letter D. Rojas creates a theme of having too much pride from the Oedipus Rex story.

That statement is the one that best describes how the author created an original theme while drawing from classic tradition.

With "The Glass of Milk", Manuel Rojas shows that the willingness to work is not the only thing required to get out of poverty. The story explores issues of poverty, honour and shame. In addition, it shows the real suffering that needs can cause and examines the honour and integrity of those who experience them.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”