How are the details about twain's failures in his odd jobs important to our understanding of the character? a they reinforce the notion that the character is lazy, does not want to work, and is not capable of working hard. b they detail how prospects in the american west were much dimmer than advertised, making for a harder life for those who sought fame and fortune in the new frontier. c they mark his development from an inexperienced easterner trying to make-it-rich to an experienced, yet cynical, western writer. d they show that he is eager to work but has few useful skills, making him a loveable but pathetic

1) earth's crust is made up of relatively rigid plates that ride atop earth's hot, semiliquid mantle. (2) the plates are called tectonic because they're in constant motion. (3) they can move because earth's mantle is a very hot and semiliquid fluid called magma. (4) volcanoes are a result of magma rising up or erupting through a plate, particularly where plate boundaries are moving against each other. (5) also, when plates slide against each other, causing friction along adjacent plate boundaries, earthquakes frequently occur. (6) therefore, we often find volcanoes and earthquakes along plate boundaries. (7) plates may also collide. (8) when that happens, mountain ranges are formed. (9) for example, the collision of the plate carrying the indian subcontinent created the himalayan mountains when it collided with the asian plate. which statement about this paragraph is accurate?