Plz help!!! i rlly need help :( STORY: The Winter Hibiscus

questions are below! best responses will be marked as BRAINLIEST!!! :D

1. What does the Winter Hibiscus symbolize? Use examples from the text to support your response. *

2. When discussing literature, the term "dynamic character" means simply a character who undergoes some important change in the course of the story. Who is a dynamic character in "The Winter Hibiscus"? Why should this character be considered 'dynamic'? Provide evidence/examples from the beginning and the end of the story to support your response. *

3. What is the theme of the short story "The Winter Hibiscus"? What example(s) and/or event(s) from the text prove this? *

4. Based on her experiences in the story, what is the most difficult conflict that Saeng must face? (You can choose any of her internal conflicts or either of her external conflicts: Saeng vs. her mother, Saeng vs. her new environment in the United States) Use examples/evidence from the text to support your ideas. *

5. Using the list of generational conflicts on the whiteboard in the front of the classroom, what is the most dominate generational conflict in "The Winter Hibiscus?" Explain your ideas using examples from the text. *

Which two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.

How does the author foreshadow trouble in the prison? support your answer with explicit textual evidence

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.