Read the excerpt from "Why Alligator Hates Dog." Dog loved a good chase, so he couldn't resist leaping off the porch in hot pursuit. What he didn't know was that this rabbit was crafty: he led Dog right, then left, then straight to a deep hole. The rabbit jumped over the hole, knowing full well that Dog wouldn't see the hole and would tumble right into it. That hole just happened to be an alligator den, and guess who had made it his home? The setting in this excerpt helps make the folktale seem calm. comical. mysterious.

"the trouble is," sighed the doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. it seems to be a provision of nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. and nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost." what larger idea is the doctor referring to when he says that nature takes no account of moral consequences? impulses often overrule a person’s sense of good and bad. nature forces women into motherhood. young people are prone to having delusions. morals play no role when we choose who we love.

The outsiders how johnny got hurt. how does this affect his personality ?

"first of all, how could they mistake a man for a sasquatch? " which best explains the purpose of this question (from review 2)? a) to illustrate how much the book uses humor b) to show how unbelievable parts of the story are c) to convince the reader that the novel is poorly written d) to highlight the differences between the characters in the novel