How does the following quote from paragraph 22 contribute to the development of central ideas in the passage? “And so you just keep pushing, and you try and make it the best for the rest of your life. And I think you also realize that despite what you’ve done, you’re more than your worst action.”

The author talks about being more confident about yourself and believing in that you are worth it.

Explanation:

The paragraph talks about motivation, determination which is required in the life of a person to do a particular thing. The paragraph says that it is very important for a person to have confidence in himself to achieve his goals and ambitions in life.

The author of the paragraph is trying to boost up the reader by saying that the reader is definitely better than, and is worth more of what worst action he had done.

a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

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