Things definitely weren’t right.
From this sentence he started speaking in first person.
Hi, you've asked an incomplete question. However, I added the missing explanations below.
<u>Quotation/Explanation:</u>
- <em>"But that's chicken and I've got a reputation to consider." </em>Meaning: <em>The fact is "Squeaky sees things in Raymond that other people don't."</em>
- <em>"I almost stop to watch my brother Raymond on his first run." </em>Meaning: What this quotation show is that <em>"Squeaky thinks kids are as important as adults".</em>
- <em>"People like to act like things come easy to them...Not me." </em>Meaning: His willingness to state his opinion despite been different shows that <em>"Squeaky values honesty."</em>
- <em>"He's got no right to call me Squeaky, if I can't call him Beanstalk." </em>Meaning: <em>It shows that "Squeaky pays more attention to people she respects."</em>
- <em>"Besides, there's just me and Gretchen standing there really." </em>Meaning:<em> It shows that "Squeaky cares what other girls think about her."</em>
Answer:
Two rival political parties temporarily work together to defeat a third party.
Explanation:
Cooperation is both long term or short term depending on the parties involved. If the parties who wants to undergo cooperation believes to built long term relationship then they will work together to achieve mutual benefit. If two parties want to gain temporary advantage from synergy they will have this cooperation for just a single project.
In this given extract, the third paragraph demonstrates a temporary cooperation. This could be two political parties working together to defeat a third party and then ending this cooperation.
Answer:
They journey took me _some_ hours
