Read the passage from My Antonia by Willa Cather? Which theme is best supported by the contrast in this
passage?
Those girls had grown up in the first bitter-hard
times, and had got little schooling themselves. But
the younger brothers and sisters, for whom they
made such sacrifices and who have had
"advantages," never seem to me, when I meet them
now, half as interesting or as well educated. The
older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod,
learned so much from life, from poverty, from their
mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like
Antonia, been early awakened and made observant
by coming at a tender age from an old country to a
new.
O It is better for girls to be farmers than teachers.
O Experience can be a more effective teacher than
formal education.
O It isn't a good idea to make sacrifices for your family.
O People who have advantages aren't very interesting.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the crowd begins to disperse just before the first martian exits the cylinder.when i returned to the common the sun was setting. scattered groups were hurrying from the direction of woking, and one or two persons were returning. the crowd about the pit had increased, and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky—a couple of hundred people, perhaps. there were raised voices, and some sort of struggle appeared to be going on about the pit. strange imaginings passed through my mind. as i drew nearer i heard stent's voice: "keep back! keep back! "a boy came running towards me."it's a-movin'," he said to me as he passed; 'a-screwin' and a-screwin' out. i don't like it. i'm a-goin' 'ome, i am."what options accurately depict the impact of the boy's words on pacing within the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe setting is in england, so the boy's words provide the reader with the dialect of the area. even though that slows down the plot, the boy's words contain important information.the plot's forward movement is slow at the beginning of the excerpt because there is little action. the boy's words increase the tension and counteract that lag.the narrator is not close enough to see clearly into the pit, so the boy's words provide the narrator with the information he needs, which moves the plot forward.the boy's words serve to speed up the pacing of the plot because, as he is talking to the narrator, he is running past him to get away.the narrator is not close enough to see clearly into the pit, so the boy's words provide the narrator with the information he needs, which moves the plot forward.wrong? the boy's words serve to speed up the pacing of the plot because, as he is talking to the narrator, he is running past him to get away.