February 26 2021
Dear diary,
My parents started fighting and it really made me feel very uncomfortable. I started bursting into tears! I had no one to talk to about it! After I started to calm down a like bit I decided to write how I feel about arguments. It went something like this.
The second reason that we often say the wrong thing is because our first instincts are usually off. In fact, it’s often the words we lead with that get us into so much trouble. “That’s because too often we end up framing the issue as who’s right or who’s wrong,”Instead of trying to understand what’s really happening in a disagreement, we advocate for our position. I’m sitting on my bed writing this, I have to stop writing because I have school tomorrow. I hope tomorrow will be a better day.
<span>prove his point by spelling out the options available with an education.
In his parallelism, he is showing that you'll realize your potential or interests in school while doing a project or writing an essay. The last part of the parallelism speaks about classes, so we know that his emphasis is on education. This eliminates the first and last options. He isn't necessarily choosing the best classes here, just using English and science as an example. This leaves the third option as the correct choice.
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The narrator's honesty in a matter that doesn't entirely complement him makes him seem genuine.
