Contrast: Insects may have entered a cool home and earthworms would have escaped to under the cool soil.
Compare: They both may have gone to a chilly area from their instincts.
Answer: Lexington would talk about how important is work for teenagers, since the story of the hardworking Reagan is presented as an example.
Explanation: Lexington presents Reagan's story as a way of differing with many americans that claim summer jobs to be boring. Reagan was a harworker young man, who worked as a lifeguard, but in comparison to some teenagers, he would take it seriously to the point of saving people's lives from a river and scold them for it. He would wake up early and do his job for 12 hours a day, seven days a week. Therefore, If Lexington is presenting Reagan's hard routine, he would answer to a question like that by making the difference between lazy teenagers that complain about muscle ache and how they should value it, like Reagan.
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Because it shows that the animals arent the only ones suffering from a bad economy and enviroment, hope this helps, can u help me with my question plz?