Answer:
by offering information about Wash’s hopes for the future
Explanation:
Wash, as he sometimes gets to ride in other peoples' cars, sees that there are towns that are better and fancier than the one that he lives in. He hopes that in the future he will be able to live in one of these towns or the houses in them that are better than his own, and this gives us a personal connection to what he's feeling.
The answer is a. action that begins in the past and continues in the present
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