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i think it means that if someone is suffering, everyone is suffering because we need another to thrive
The direct object is "soccer". It is possible to identify the direct object because it tends to inmediately follow the main verb, which is 'play' in this case. Also, a more effective means of identification is by replacing the word with the pronoun 'something'. Thus, if I paraphrase this sentence it will be: Scott and Maria aplay something. Always remember that a direct object is a syntactic element in a sentence, so it usualñy consists of more than one word, in this case the complete direct object would be: soccer with an old ball they found behind the shell.
i do think it was the right thing to do, if anyone had found out about their friendship, shmuel would have been killed a lot sooner than he was. Both boys would probably be beat and neither would ever get to see each other again.