According to a source on the internet, the theme that addressed in both excerpts would be the last choice - Reality can be inexplicably cruel and unfair.
This is further strengthened by the passage - How stunned I was, for example, to discover another time outside time, a universe parallel to this one, a creation within Creation, with its own laws, customs structures, and language - as if reality is deceiving and being unfair to the person.
Answer:
The elders brought the cakes from chapter 4
I read this book already.
Answer:
I was late to dinner, there was a traffic jam.
Explanation:
He gets a sack or tacle the person with the ball.
