What does this mean ? "I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles woulld not solve their problems.

We can look at clues in the excerpt to solve our problem. The first hint is "desperate, rejected, and angry young men". This part says that the narrator has seen many people who were overshadowed by society and stuck to themselves. Molotov cocktail and rifles are usually associated with violence, so that would be my best guess. My final thought is that the author is trying to say that young men who has been labelled an outcast have turned to violence, as they think it is their only option.

a is the indefinite article

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.