Select ALL the correct answers Which two statements best express themes of the passage?
adapted from The Locket
by Kate Chopin
One night in autumn a few men were gathered about a fire on a
hill. They belonged to a small detachment of Confederate forces.
Their gray uniforms were worn beyond the point of shabbiness.
One of the men was heating something in a tin cup over the
embers. Two were lying at full length a little distance away, while a
fourth was trying to decipher a letter and had drawn close to the
light. He had unfastened his collar and a good bit of his flannel shirt
front.
"What's that you got around your neck, Ned?" asked one of the
men
Ned-or Edmond-mechanically fastened another button of his
shirt and did not reply. He went on reading his letter.
"Is it your sweetheart's picture?"
"Taint no gal's picture." offered the man at the fire. "That's a
charm. Hey, French Ain't I right?" Edmond looked up absently from
his letter.
"What is it?" he asked
"Ain't that a charm you got round your neck?"
"It must be, Nick returned Edmond with a smile. I don't know
how I could have gone through this year and a half without it."
The letter had made Edmond heartsick and homesick He
stretched himself on his back and looked straight up at the blinking
stars. Sut he was not thinking of them nor of anything but a certain
spring day when a girl was saying goodbye to him. He could see her
as she unclasped from her neck the locket which she fastened
about his own. It was an old fashioned golden locket bearing
miniatures of her father and mother it was
Tokens of love gain special significance in wartime.
It's important to take care of things that you borrow.
Good luck charms can provide solace but not protection
Stress makes people imagine things.
The devotion of one person can change the world.
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