<span>1. In my opinion this situation is an example of wasting talent. Yes, Hanna has natural skill at field hockey, but she does not develop it. The lack of practice could cause the wasting of your natural skill. Natural skill = talent, so the answer is "wasting talent".
2. I think that this one is also an example of wasting talent. Even if Marcy is a very good math student, she should prove it by showing good results on tests. And the most important thing that she should expand her math knowledge and not to lose her potential. It also could be a result of getting distracted but there was no mention about this factor.
3. In my view this situation is a good example of allowing others to set goals. This commercial allowed Stefan to set goal to buy this reader. Now he has a goal that he can reach or not.
4. I am definitely sure that this situation is an example of allowing others to set goals. This situation gives him an additional motivation to rich his goal by proving his parents that being a teacher is his calling.
5. This situation is also a good example of allowing others to set goals. Father asks Noah to stay closer to hove, and gives him an opportunity to choose between family or career. According to what he chooses, he can set a particular set of goals.
6. This situation is 100% an example of getting distracted. Elise is wrong at her time management because she is being distracted by her friends. We don't know if she is good at English and has some natural skills, so it's "getting distracted" option.
7. If I understand it correctly, this situation is an example of allowing others to set goals. Because Jim has a choice between internship or working at the grocery to help himself and his father to get money for college. He should to think how to set his goals correctly.
8. I am completely sure that this one is an example of wasting talent. Ben sets his priorities wrong and he wastes his potential in wrestling because if he doesn't lose two pounds, he won't wreslte this week. It's important to keep in shape when you are doing sports.
9. If I got it right, this situation is an example of getting distracted. Ellen has lost her attention because of the loud music while she was driving her car with friends.
10. I am pretty sure that in this case it would be "wasting talent" option. Jose does not develop his natural skill to be a leader by practicing in real life. He wastes his potential and his talent without enough practice.</span>
The theme is "Anything is possible; don't let anybody or anything get in your way."
The facts that are told at the end of the story are in sharp contrast to those that unleash the tragedy that Desiree and her son have to live. Only in the last few lines we discover that her husband knows the true cause of the dark color of the child's skin, which derives from the color of his own mother and has nothing to do with the unknown facts that cover the real origin of Desiree, since his filiation was not known from the beggining.
The irony is graphed in the fact that Desiree's husband could not have ignored that his mother was a dark-skinned woman, as he lived with her for the first eight years of his life and in addition to that, in the end, we also got to know that he was in possession of that letter that informed him the truth, in the probably event that he had forgotten it over the years.
The mistreatment he gave to his slaves was then the most important contradiction, although we can observe that his character softens after the birth of his son, even so having to see him daily was probably a permanent reminder of a shame he was trying to leave behind.