What can be inferred about the message the writer wants to convey in raccoon olympics? Young people are impressionable and need adult guidance to form by their early experiences. Young people have creative imaginations that are formed by their early experiences. O Adults have a responsibility to foster the creative thinking skills of younger people.
O Adults have a responsibility to protect the influential experiences of younger people.
Part B
Which evidence best supports the answer in Part A?
"It will not occur to me until I am an adult to wonder if Paul convinced all the kids he could train wild raccoons to compete
in swim meets, or if he just made up a kinder explanation for me."
"Paul doesn't really say what the raccoons look like when they swim. But my swimming raccoons wear goggles and have
special swim caps fitted over their ringed tails to decrease drag."
O
"You ever heard of the Raccoon Olympics?' Paul asks me. I shake my head. He winks. 'No? Well, some raccoons are
very good swimmers. But we want to find the best for our Olympic team""
"'So, to test their swimming, we drive the raccoons out into the middle of the lake and put them in the water. If they're good
swimmers, we start training them for the Olympics-"