Grandmother described our weather perfectly and poetically: "here are the long heavy winds and breathless calms on the tilted mesas where dust devils dance, whirling up into a wide, pale sky. here you have no rain when all the earth cries for it. this is a land of lost rivers, with little in it to love, yet, it is a land that once visited must be come back to inevitably." if it were not so, there would be no one to tell of its harshness, beauty, and power. does the bolded portion contain an error? choose the correction if one is needed. harsh, beautiful, and powerful harshly, beautifully, and powerfully harsh, beauty, and powerfulness no correction needed

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answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.