First of all/ Which Shiloh book are you talking about?
        
             
        
        
        
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The publishing houses rejected his poems and stories.
Explanation:
Walter Dean Myers shared the story of his life and his effort to see that young people succeed in the face of hard times in an interview with BBC news on 5/6/2012.
There he told them he was committed to writing based on the advice that was given to him by one of his high school teachers.
He said in his attempt to get his works published, he sent his poems and stories to publishing houses and they were rejected on countless occasions. His first book to be published is "where does the day go?" after several failed attempts.
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Main clauses express a complete thought and appear in compound, complex and compound-complex sentences. Therefore, the correct answer is all of the above. A compound sentence is made up of two independent clauses which are joined by a coordinating conjunction. A complex sentence is made up of an independent clause and a dependent clause which are joined by subordinating conjunction. A compound-complex sentence is made up of two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
        
             
        
        
        
The answer is to make a connection between the character in <em>Pilgrims Progress </em>and muckraking journalists. I know that this is the answer because I take English and took a quiz asking me about this and it was the right answer.  
 
        
             
        
        
        
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I would say it makes the event seem more exciting contrasting the lifeless town to the rapidly moving weather, but that is just my opinion.