In this excerpt from <em>Raymond's Run</em> Squeaky's descrption of her father shows that <em>she admires her father's natural running ability.</em> <u>The correct answer is the second one.</u>
Explanation:
In these lines, the reader can realize how proud Squeaky is of her father; she even jokes about him winning even in an imaginary race with him doing the less effort ("<em>and him running with his hands in his pockets and whistling</em>"). She says her father would win even if she had two-fire-hydran head start. She sounds amazed and proud by her father's running ability.
The first answer is also true, but I don't feel it is accurate enough because the tone of the lines is very joyful, she doesn't care that her father is a better runner than her, on the contrary <u>she sounds glad.</u>
