1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
gizmo_the_mogwai [7]
2 years ago
11

“Yeah, the job is pretty boring,” Mariah admitted, looking at the wave pool from atop her lifeguard station. “But I get to be ou

tdoors and I can go on all the rides for free when I’m done.” Her questioner—Berry, a classmate she didn’t know well, who happened to be a customer as well as being the annoying editor of the school newspaper—stretched his arm up toward her in some weird kind of salute. Actually he was recording her with the purple-and-black striped phone in his hand. “How are the working conditions?” he inquired in the important tones of an anchorman. “They’re—” She stopped cold. She stood up, staring at the crowd who rose and fell and squealed with each new surge of machine-churned water. Amid the bobbing figures, she had seen one stop moving, and seen its head sink halfway under the water and stay there. She grabbed the rescue tube and dove into the pool. In what felt like an instant, she had swum to the far end, a few feet from the wave machine, and stopped behind the eight-year-old boy who was floating face-down. She thrust the long, red foam rescue tube at him. Then, she stood in the three-foot deep water and scooped him around the waist. As she lifted his head, a waterfall of clear, bubbly water streamed down. She wrapped both his small, soft hands around the flotation tube and towed him to the side of the pool. She hoisted him high and set him on the brightly painted white cement, then boosted herself up after him. The boy—his name turned out to be Peter—hadn’t fully lost consciousness, so he didn’t need CPR. After a couple of slaps on the back, he was coughing wetly and breathing well, though too stunned even to ask what had happened. By now, the waders in the pool understood vaguely what had happened. They looked around helplessly and asked each other bewildered questions. No one had noticed that Peter was drowning, not even the adults three feet away from him. Peter’s teenage brother and his friends had sloshed as quickly as they could to poolside. In five minutes, the EMS ambulance arrived to take Peter to the nearby clinic. “I got it all on video!” Berry exclaimed. “Now give me an interview!” She couldn’t give him much of an interview, because the event had lasted only thirty seconds. She hadn’t consciously decided how to act, and didn’t remember many details. Her reflexes had done it all automatically. Her lifesaving courses had worked! She hardly knew what she was saying during the interview, and assumed she must sound incredibly dumb and out of breath. Later her family and neighbors told her how poised and in-charge she’d appeared. The strange thing was, she didn’t feel as if she’d done anything special. The only thing that felt new was the way she couldn’t keep herself from smiling at everything—at the trees in her backyard, at silly TV shows, at her younger brother, at the table setting at dinner, at everything.
______________________________________________________________

Write an accurate summary of the fictional text that you just read. Include all the elements of a good summary.
______________________________________________________________
PLEASE HELP ASAP!!! If you are not sure what to do please just give me what you think the theme is. I am so confused...
PS.  it only has to be 2-3 paragraphs.
English
2 answers:
Klio2033 [76]2 years ago
6 0
I know the answer by heart.
amid [387]2 years ago
6 0

you can put the theme is reflexes are the best weapon.

You might be interested in
Exercise 4.11
nevsk [136]

Answer:

The teacher told the students to finish the project.

The IT technician said to the boy that this wouldn't work.

Salwa said she believed what they were saying.

The teacher earlier told them to be ready.

She told Ali to sit in the first row.

He asked her whether she needed more help.

Rachel told her mother that the dinner was delicious.

She said to his class that the next lesson would start in 10 minutes.

She said to the hairdresser that she needed to change her.

She said I didn't want to but at the end   I told him the whole story.

The interviewer asked Jamal why he had left his previous job.

Ali asked where he could park his car.

Muza said to her brother that she wanted to go there too.

Ahmed told his father that he was planning to leave his job.

4 0
3 years ago
Make a sentence using the words The U.S. and Postal Service which are correctly capitalized​
makkiz [27]

Answer:

United States Post Office

Explanation:

3 0
2 years ago
We passed the school, where
svet-max [94.6K]
Alliteration and personification
3 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Naming Pluto
Luba_88 [7]

Answer:

can you make it shorter

Explanation:

5 0
2 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Main idea of this please anyone
alexandr1967 [171]
The main idea is basically saying loose your shoe late at night your drunk.
4 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • discuss which of the themes developed in this story would most appeal to high-school students today. Give reasons to support you
    11·1 answer
  • The Odyssey - Elpenor is an epic poem because it features a(n)
    12·1 answer
  • She should have donated her time so she could help others. What are the helping verbs in the verb phrases?
    12·1 answer
  • Which of the following is true about foreign and domestic affairs.
    5·2 answers
  • Write about your ideal learning environment
    7·2 answers
  • ANSWER ASAP
    11·1 answer
  • What was Rodriguez's father's job in Mexico?
    9·1 answer
  • 7. Which statement best expresses a theme of the story?
    8·2 answers
  • **PLEASE HELP I'LL GIVE YOU BRAINLIEST**
    14·2 answers
  • The army re_____ed soldiers to the base.
    7·2 answers
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!