If you were writing a story about a young man named Jeremy trying to improve his physical fitness, which sentence would most lik
ely be the first event in that story? A) Jeremy looked at the mirror before his shower and saw how terribly out of shape he was.
B) Grunting ferociously, Jeremy attempted to do a few pull-ups for the first time.
C) Jeremy looked at the scale and smiled with the satisfaction when he saw the number.
D) Jeremy sat down and looked over his progress with his weight training for the week.
"The Glass of Milk" is Manuel Rojas' short story about pride, despair and compassion when a young boy's hunger will not allow him to ask for desperately needed food, which is supplied unquestioningly by a kind woman.
