And then we celebrated the birth of my baby brother all night.
Answer: D
It should be contradict. The sentence "As much as he tried to contradict the evidence, it was clear he was the thief" gives more clarity and emphasis to the previous sentence of "he tried to deny that the backpack filled with stolen jewelry found beside his car was his."
Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird relates that, upon seeing Dill under the bed, Jen “rose and broke the remaining code of our childhood” which i believe is the code of no “snitching” by telling Atticus. To Scout this makes Jem a “traitor” but this was an act of responsibility that was necessary for Jem’s maturation toward adulthood.
Hope this helped <3
To help readers more easily relate to the narrator, writers can use First person point of view.
