I believe sentence 1 expresses the main idea
Answer is a because i took the test
<span>by offering information about Wash’s hopes for the future
Wash, as he sometimes gets to ride in other peoples' cars, sees that there are towns that are better and fancier than the one that he lives in. He hopes that in the future he will be able to live in one of these towns or the houses in them that are better than his own, and this gives us a personal connection to what he's feeling. </span>
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Superstition is the irrational believe in supernatural circumstances, and typically those related to fair chance or bad luck, even when such circumstances cannot be explained with a natural phenomenon or rationally but it's still traditionally accepted and very popular.
So builder owners deliberately exclude or miss the 13th floor, generally due being considered of <em>"bad luck"</em>, mainly by religious people <em>(in Christianity Judas was the 13th disciple who betrayed Jesus)</em>.
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1. "Looking down at the fathomless pit into which I was going to engulf myself."
2. "I imagined I was traveling through a hollowed-out diamond with the rays disintegrating into a thousand dazzling lights."
Explanation: He uses the words "Looking down at the fathomless pit into which I was going to engulf myself" as a metaphor to explain that he was acknowledging that in order to face his fears, he had to go through a difficult journey that would be like a "pit" (water well) to him.
Axel also uses the metaphor: "I imagined I was traveling through a hollowed-out diamond with the rays disintegrating into a thousand dazzling lights." to describe how breathtaking and beautiful the sight was when he was on the subterranean, just as he was looking at a diamond and its bright lights.