In the “Birthday Box” we learn this lesson, always be thankful for what you have because one day it could disappear. In this story Kate’s mom was very sick for a long time, she was in the hospital for quite a while. On Katie’s tenth birthday she goes to see her mom at the hospital. Katie had a big party with all the nurses and doctors. Kate received a box from her mother and she was too upset that all she got was a box to realize that her mom was using up her last heartbeats. After this event Katie was depressed for about a year, she really missed her.
The author developed a bias in favor of climbing by exemplifying the benefits that climbing has on your mental and physical self. The author uses persuasive words such as better and hooked. The author uses something common that every one struggles with as a solution with climbing.
Compound sentences have more than one subject and more than one verb. ... Remember that an independent clause is a complete sentence, or thought, that has a subject and a verb.
She knows that if she attempts to, by claiming that they were faking the whole time, the others would unite against her and could claim that she (Mary Warren) was a witch