The best and the correct answer among the choices provided by the question is the second choice or letter B.
The line "<span>To make us wish that we were in his place." reflect the themes of the excerpt.</span>
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Question:
What is the antecedent of the pronoun those?
Sentence: Those are books that need to be returned to the library
Answer:
<u><em>Books</em></u>
Pronouns are used to replace nouns with more general terms that don't describe a specific person or place. The antecedent of a pronoun is the word that the pronoun replaces.
In the case of this sentence, the pronoun <em>those </em>replaces the word <em>books</em>, therefore the antecedent of the pronoun <em>those </em>is <em>books</em>.
Is that a poem?
If it is the one about the fire and the boys. Then the speaker doesn’t like his father in the beginning because he isn’t able to play with his friends. At the end he is grateful because the boys got in trouble and he wasn’t involved.