Mance ate slept and breathed baseball His dream was to become like his idol manor league pitcher Spencer Rainer Marco's favonte part of each day was the
Dine Sangers cartoon He didnt care much for the cartoon, but at the end of
each episode Ramires gave a quack baseball di Marco found it funny that
Rammes enced each lesson by saying "And remember kids always listen to your
coach "Manco's family was too poor for ham to play on a real baseball team, so
Spencer Samen was the closest thing Marco had to a coach One day Marco's
unde surprised the family by announcing he had won two tickets to a Rockets
game Of course he would take his nephew to see the great Spencer Ramirez
From the first row seats they could see and hear the players perfectly. The
game was going great except for Ramirez s pitching Inning after inning the
pitching coach med correcting encouraging admonishing and finally berating
the star player. Finally Ramirez snapped and exploded into a tirade against his
coach throwing his glove and teckeng over the watercooler Marco hung his head
as his hero was erected from the game on the sad nde home Marco's uncle
offered to help hom onth his patching it tumed out that although he didn't like to
talk about st Marco's uncle had pitched for a minor-league team back in Cuba
Feeling encouraged Marco realized he wouldn't need Spencer Ramirez's baseball
tips any longer.

Which option best states two possible themes from this story?
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alliteration is the repetition of the same or similar consonants. having that in mind, i would say that the correct answer is: so shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.

your answer would be: d) eye contact

"character is what you are in the dark." dwight lyman moody, in this very witty quotation of his, states we act and think differently when we are "in the dark", that is, when the spotlight is not on us and everyone can see us and consequently judge us. when reading, we tend to be sympathetic to some characters and their dilemmas. by being so, we are saying to ourselves that we agree with those characters' acts and choices, even if they are morally questionable if we have common sense in mind. dwight lyman moody's quotation applies very well to "crime and punishment", by   19th century russian writer fiodor dostoyevsky. raskolnikov, the main character, a former law student who spends his days reflecting upon life and its misery, draws a fatal conclusion: mankind is divided in two main categories: ordinary and extraordinary people. the first are the ones who lead a run-of-the-mill existence and are full of imperfections; the latter are the ones who are spiritually superior, the ones who always know better, and have the right to judge the ordinary ones, as well as eliminate them if for common good. raskolnikov considers himself as belonging to the extraordinary category and decides to kill an old lady who is a money lender and in whose house he rents a small room. raskolnikov compares himself to napoleon, who had the undeniable right to execute tons of people during the war in order to save his nation. of course what the main character decides to do is a horrendous crime, but as readers we feel it is the right thing for him to do, since the victim is a mean old woman who only thinks about money and keeps humiliating her younger sister. what one experiences is a mixture of sympathy and empathy for the character, even though he decides to commit homicide, which is not at all accepted or tolerated by civilized citizens. however, since readers are "in the dark", they allow themselves to feel in ways they would probably never dare to confess to anyone, no matter how nasty or vicious a character can be. after all, they are just reading and doing no harm. in other words, readers are in the dark and can be who they are without being judged.