Question

select the correct texts in the passage.
which two sentences in these excerpts from kate chopin’s “the locket” reflect the theme of holding on to love despite time and distance.
the letter had made edmond heart sick and home sick. he stretched himself on his back and looked straight up at the blinking stars. but he was not thinking of them nor of anything but a certain spring day when the bees were humming in the clematis; when a girl was saying goodbye to him. he could see her as she unclasped from her neck the locket which she fastened about his own. it was an old fashioned golden locket bearing miniatures of her father and mother with their names and the date of their marriage. it was her most precious earthly possession.
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octavie wore a plain black dress, severe in its simplicity. a narrow belt held it at the waist and the sleeves were gathered into close fitting wristbands. she had discarded her hoopskirt and appeared not unlike a nun. beneath the folds of her bodice nestled the old locket. she never displayed it now. it had returned to her sanctified in her eyes; made precious as material things sometimes are by being forever identified with a significant moment of one’s existence.
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octavie felt as if she had passed into a stage of existence which was like a dream, more poignant and real than life. there was the old gray house with its sloping eaves. amid the blur of green, and dimly, she saw familiar faces and heard voices as if they came from far across the fields, and edmond was holding her. it was as if the spirit of life and the awakening spring had given back the soul to her youth and bade her rejoice.

Explanation:

1. The first sentence shows Edmond clinging to a vivid, loving memory of Octavia giving him the locket, even when far from her and distressed, demonstrating holding love across distance/time.
2. The second sentence shows Octavia keeping the locket close (but hidden) after time has passed, with the locket made precious by its link to her loving moment with Edmond, reflecting holding on to love over time.

Answer:

1. But he was not thinking of them nor of anything but a certain spring day when the bees were humming in the clematis; when a girl was saying goodbye to him.
2. Beneath the folds of her bodice nestled the old locket. She never displayed it now. It had returned to her sanctified in her eyes; made precious as material things sometimes are by being forever identified with a significant moment of one's existence.