Read these lines: when fortune would elect/ to trick a man, she plots his overthrow/ by such a means as he would least which theme from the story is best represented in these lines?
b) people don expect good things to happen to them
c) people have little control over their own lives
d) fortune plays fair to those she meets, even if they are cunning

C) people have little control over their own lives.

Explanation: In the given lines we can see that the theme of the story that is best represented is that people have little control over their own lives, because the lines imply that doesn't matter what a person does or says, if the fortune want to trick a man, she will do it in ways that the man doesn't expect at all, so this gives the idea of people having little or no control over their lives.

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".