Question

Read the excerpt from a short story. The Sonoran Desert route was his favorite. His friends were surprised he could endure the solitude of it, but he cherished the barren miles. Today he’d passed a mile of verbena in full bloom, followed by ten miles with nothing but sagebrush. The next leg promised cliffs, and he loved to imagine scaling them as he traversed the desolate highway. In fact, one was rising in the distance, and the highway would bear right around it. He looked down to cool the temperature, looked up again, and stared. The grill of a tractor trailer, in his lane, was bearing down upon him. How does the excerpt exemplify the ideas King describes in "Danse Macabre"? It allows readers to approach a “forbidden door.” It provides a “single powerful spectacle” for the imagination’s eye. It forces readers to “grapple” with their own mortality. It introduces an unlikely “dancing partner.”

Answer 1

The excerpt exemplifies the ideas King describes in "Danse Macabre" because It forces readers to “grapple” with their own mortality.

Explanation:

In this excerpt the character is facing his own sudden confrontation to death, this makes the readers face their own mortality by relating to the story an come to think that world and life are unpredictable and everyone in a certain moment would be in the moment before the end.

Answer 2

This excerpt comes from the book “Danse Macabre” written by Stephen King. It is a non-fiction book about the influences that fears and anxieties in societies have on the development of horror stories. He makes a survey and analysis of several horror stories in the media .

Question: How does the excerpt exemplify the ideas King describes in "Danse Macabre"?

Answer: C. it forces readers to "grapple" with their own mortality