Which one of these excerpts from mark twain's life on the mississippi best shows that the story is told in first person?
a. ten minutes later the steamer is under way again, with no flag on the jack-staff and no black smoke issuing from the chimneys.
b. i first wanted to be a cabin-boy, so that i could come out with a white apron on and shake a tablecloth over the side, where all my old comrades could see me.
c. then such a scramble as there is to get aboard, and to get ashore, and to take in freight and to discharge freight, all at one and the same time.
d. assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon the coming boat as upon a wonder they are seeing for the first time.

Read this excerpt from holes. a patrol car pulled alongside him. a policeman asked him why he was running. then he took the shoes and made a call on his radio. shortly thereafter, stanley was arrested. it turned out the sneakers had been stolen from a display at the homeless shelter. that evening rich people were going to come to the shelter and pay a hundred dollars to eat the food that the poor people ate every day for free. clyde livingston, who had once lived at the shelter when he was younger, was going to speak and sign autographs. his shoes would be auctioned, and it was expected that they would sell for over five thousand dollars. all the money would go to the homeless. why does sachar include this description of the shoes in the flashback? a. to show where the shoes came from b. to show how valuable the shoes were c. to reveal why stanley was arrested d. to give background on the homeless shelter

Which conclusion about the eldest magician does this excerpt support

The dragon wakes is a metaphor for a big event; what is the event how does moonshadows belief about dragons him understand what is happening