Answer: A. he wants to beat up monkey man so Tigros will let him join
Explanation:
This relates to the short story,<em> Monkeyman</em> in the collection of short stories known as, <em>145th Street</em> by <em>Myers Walter Dean</em>.
In this story, a boy named Monkeyboy(so called because he likes to climb trees to read) saved a girl named Peaches from being stabbed by a female member of the Tigros gang which infuriated the Tigros causing them to issue threats against Monkeyman.
Clean was a new boy in the school who claimed to have run with the Crips and when he heard of the Tigros he wanted to join them. They inferred that if Clean was to beat up Monkeyboy (or worse), he could get into the gang. And so began his animosity towards Monkeyboy.
Answer: I'd choose
'Tommy is an imaginative boy who yearns or adventure.'
Explanation: My reasoning is he goes into more depth about wanting to be on the ship and what adventures he'd have and how he'd seek his fortune and his more 'imaginative' wording instead of talking about his hometown, or knowing more about ships at his age because it does not mention other boys his age, and Tommy spends to much time at the rivers edge watching ships isn't exactly what your supposed to get from the paragraph, I mean yeah you could, but it isn't the best answer/the one they are looking for.
