To expand about yourself more than just what your resume says
Because a beach is not a person, the only pronoun that can be used is "it."
The author's main purpose was the explain that the Community Service Council was effectual to high school students. The personal backstory was to add more evidence of the effectiveness.
These two lines reflect the theme that men must never go against fate:
1. "I don't know what the first two was, but the third was for death. that's how i got the paw"
2. He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow. He put a spell on it so that three separate men could each have three wishes from it."
Explanation: The actual lesson that Fakir wanted to teach is that fate ruled people's lives.
I believed the answer is D: past