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Please provide the scene and the statements so someone can help you :)
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It's improbable that he would have survived without the hatchet... everything occurs for a purpose, and nature doesn't waste anything.
No. It should be "Paloma did not make it to work, for her car broke down on the freeway".
I think that there are three phrases which create comic tone:
dangling from his arm
someone who grew desperate
to fold up a bush