Chapter 25 is not exactly a happy chapter in this book. Most of the chapter is taken up with Grayson telling Maniac Magee stories from his earlier days as a minor league pitcher. Some of the stories are sad, some are happy, and some are funny. The chapter ends on a big downer because the final story that Grayson tells is how he pitched the worst game of his life in front of a scout and blew his chance at playing major league baseball. The question seems to indicate that it is looking for a specific thing that Maniac does to make Grayson feel better. I think that occurs early in the chapter. This is when Maniac begins probing Grayson for some details about his baseball career. When Grayson admits that he was a minor league pitcher, Maniac is in awe of Grayson and tells Grayson that he must have been a great pitcher to make it in the minors:
"You wanted to be a baseball player."
"That ain't no story."
"Well, did you become one!" Grayson drank half his orange juice. "Just the minors," he muttered.
Maniac yelped, "The minors!"
"Couldn't never make it to the majors." There was a frayed weariness in the old man's words, as though they had long since worn out.
"Grayson—the minors. Man, you must have been good."
Grayson probably is not used to this kind of flattery anymore, but Maniac's encouraging words are enough to warm Grayson up to tell more baseball stories.
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Answer:
Armstrong had a difficult childhood: His father was a factory worker and abandoned the family soon after Louis's birth. His mother, who often turned to prostitution, frequently left him with his maternal grandmother. ... A local Jewish family, the Karnofskys, gave young Armstrong a job collecting junk and delivering coal.
Explanation:
The answer is Ladys' because its is a regional or social verity of a a language distinction by pronunciation and grammar. I hope this helps. :-)
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A. "When she ... lived there."
This line only defines a specific detail about how the special agent survived through a fake name as a spy. No central theme is described through this sentence.
B. "Baissac’s goal ... resistance groups."
This statement provides the agent’s motive and the way she enacted the task provided. However, that does not completely cover everything in the passage.
C. "Baissac did ... her tasks."
Significant work is not specific, and Normandy and traveling by a bicycle are smaller and irrelevant details, not the big picture that should be concluded from this passage.
D. "As a ... German troops."
This is the statement that definitely defines the central idea of the excerpt. When we break this line into sections, we can see that it illustrates that she performed multiple essential tasks when appointed in Normandy. The phrase “sometimes dangerous tasks” describes the critical nature of the job she handled in there. And, also the opposition (German troops) is clearly mentioned in this sentence which helps to convey the idea very clearly.
The best explanation of why Rukeyser repeats them is "to emphasize the idea that war is violent".
<h3>What is a poem?</h3>
A poem is a piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.
Rukeyser repeated the first and last lines of the poem in order to emphasize the idea that war is violent and it destroys. War is never a thing of joy an individual should experience. It displace families, destroy properties and businesses.
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