Write an essay in which you analyze the importance of plot events and characters’ actions to the development of a story’s theme. review and evaluate a story from the unit that has a clearly identifiable theme. you might choose “the tell tale heart” by edgar allen poe, “the story-teller” by saki, “the finish of patsy barnes” by paul laurence dunbar, or “the drummer boy of shiloh” by ray bradbury. be sure to identify the story and write a clear statement of its theme. in your essay, answer the following question: how do various elements of the story—conflict and resolution, characters’ dialogue and behavior—contribute to the story’s theme? support your ideas with references to the text.

Select the correct text in the passage. which two sentences in this excerpt from f. scott fitzgerald's "winter dreams" seem to foreshadow dexter’s future obsession with “possessing” judy jones? now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained. they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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What is the theme of "the necklace"