The author's decision to set much of the story on a school bus symbolizes the boys' monotony of the boys' lives.
The given question is based on the story 'Not the Same Old' by B. McSwain. The story starts surrounded by two kids taking bus routes in each day. They usually takes school bus to go and come back home from school. One of the boys says that it is same everyday in their neighborhood. They find it boring that nothing special happens in their everyday life.
Analyzing this situation too, we can conclude that the author decided to set much of the story on the school bus to show the monotony in the boys' lives. It symbolizes the regularity in the boys' lives.
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Skills? I wouldn't say skills, but you think about what you red and write, you use what you know from your brain to basically understand words in a book or even when you write them down, etc. If this doesn't help, look up all the skills of reading and writing on google =)
5 is in the tens column so the value of 5 is tens
The correct answer is E i believe