Which excerpt from "The Evacuation" is the best example of the author's personal theme during her evacuation to Cornwall? Can you imagine people doing that today--parents allowing their children to be taken to a strange place, to live with unknown people?
They expected us to be dirty, full of lice, and crude. (You know, to be honest, some of us were, but still, we were just kids!)
I kept telling myself, "Pull yourself together, pull yourself together," so I wouldn't cry.
"We's together. Where she goes, I go, 'cos she's my sis and you can’t separate us."

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.