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The central theme in the story is expressed by the statement: Children who are disrespectful from a young age will not be successful later in life.
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Once he cut it off, he could use it as a weapon because it's powers still worked, so if someone attacked him he could just whip it out and use it as a weapon to turn his enemies to stone, which he does on few occasions and wins the fights that would either be impossible or much harder for him.
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Answer: B (that word hurts my ears).
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