"'Kill him! Kill the umpire!' shouted someone on the stand;/And it's likely they'd have killed him had not Casey raised his hand."
These two lines best show that the desire to win at all costs makes people act desperately. In these lines the crowd has asked for the umpire's life out of desperation. They do not agree with the decisions he is making and think that the umpire will be the one to cost them the game so they start acting irrationally out of desperation.
Answer:
The explicit idea is stated in this sentence is "The families were still close and enjoyed spending time together. "
Explanation:
In these lines from "Kids Save the Day—'Heroes' Deemed by Coast Guard!" the author mentions that Simon and Hillary have been friends since they were kids and it is also mentioned that they keep in touch and ,in fact, they took a brief vacation of a week with their families at the beach, this means that not only the two friends are close but the complete two families are.
In "A Shocking Accident", when it was neither too early nor too late, Jerome "<span>Became engaged". This is a common theme in many stories like this since life is short. </span>
Four and for the first one
<span>The poem is about the futility of arrogance. Worldly power will die with you and eventually time will destroy every mark you have ever made on the world.</span>
