He's just trying to mess me up, I thought. My lab partner, Sam, stopped me as I was just about to make the first cut into our de
ad frog. "Your forceps are slipping," he said. "You have to have to lift the skin before you start cutting." "Are you saying that you can do a better job than me?" Sam held his hands up in surrender. "Look, Pilar. I didn't mean anything by it. I'm just trying to help you make a good grade," Sam said. Sure you are. Sam always second guessed my work in our Pre-AP Biology labs. I'm sure he secretly wished that he could have been assigned a different partner. His criticism was just an attempt to bring me down. The overall tone of the language portrays Pilar as A. glad. B. complacent. C. humble. D. cynical.
