Answer:
he school principal, Mr. Jenkins, wants Meg to accept that her father is never coming home because he thinks that is the reason Meg is misbehaving at school. Meg shouldn’t necessarily believe him because it’s important that she trust her instincts and her family. Also, the principal doesn’t understand that Meg has trouble learning in school; it doesn’t have anything to do with her father being away.
Explanation:
The rhetorical device used by Twain in this excerpt is the anecdote (C.).
<u>An anecdote is defined as an entertaining narrative, usually relating biographical events</u>.
This definition fits to the text because the story is an account of events which happened to the character in the past ("One winter's night, two years ago, I...") and the narrative is comical enough to be considered for entertainement value ("I was carrying off a box of guns ... and he had got my corpse!").
The theme of the books is “sadnesss
