What does “lively death” mean in the sentence As co-owner Ned Bonner said, "If we had to put our store out of its misery, we wanted it to be a lively death."

he wanted one last chance to keep the business open

he wanted to use the occasion to promote reading within the community

he wanted to hasten the stores closing

he wanted to make the stores closing a community celebration

d) Instead of giving in to death, people should fight against it.

Throughout the poem, the lines "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" are repeated. The "good night" and "dying of the light" are different ways of saying death. The narrator is telling the audience to fight death, rage against it, don't go gentle.

The poem is written in the form of a Villanelle with a specific rhyme scheme and repeating line pattern. Villanelle's also have a structure to it's overall content. The subject of the poem increases in intensity as the poem goes on. In this poem, the speaker talks about why different types of people fight death. In the last stanza, the speaker changes from talking about others to speaking directly to his father and begging his father to fight death.