Read the excerpt from "how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale." the stories the brothers grimm first collected are brusque, blunt, absurd, comical, and tragic, and are not, strictly speaking, "fairy tales.” in fact, the grimms never intended the tales to be read by children. the tales are about children and families and how they reacted to the difficult conditions under which they lived. the grimms thought the stories and their morals emanated naturally from the german people in an oral tradition, and they wanted to preserve them before the tales were lost forever. in gathering the tales, the grimms made a unique contribution to folklore, and their kinder- und hausmärchen (children and household tales) is even listed by unesco in its memory of the world registry. it was in large part their first edition, published in two volumes in 1812 and 1815, that inspired folklorists in europe and great britain to gather tales from their oral traditions to preserve as part of their cultural heritage. which details best support the central idea of the excerpt? select three options. the grimms wanted to preserve german tales before the stories disappeared. the book is listed by unesco in its memory of the world registry. the stories and their morals come from the oral tradition of the german people. folklorists gather tales from their oral traditions to preserve cultural heritage. the original stories told of the difficult lives of children and families.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.