"we had a doctor on the ridge in them days. as good as any doctor alivin'. he'd cut a crooked toenail or deliver a woman. dead these last years." how do the details in this excerpt to develop the central idea? a) they give insight into the doctor’s motivation for people. b) they depict the poverty and lifelessness of the town. c) they explain why people wanted to get away from the town. d) they reveal some of the meaningful human history of the unnamed town.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

The_of a story can be applied to other works of literature or to life.

Discuss ways in which these authors differ in style. refer to specific details from each story to support your points.