The characters of "Wiley, His Mother, and the Hairy Man" must defeat the Hairy Man three times Which theme is most likel
suggested by this detail?
It takes hard work to achieve your goals
It is hard to succeed, but you feel great when you do.
You have only three chances to succeed in life.
Bad luck usually comes in threes

Read this excerpt from holes. a patrol car pulled alongside him. a policeman asked him why he was running. then he took the shoes and made a call on his radio. shortly thereafter, stanley was arrested. it turned out the sneakers had been stolen from a display at the homeless shelter. that evening rich people were going to come to the shelter and pay a hundred dollars to eat the food that the poor people ate every day for free. clyde livingston, who had once lived at the shelter when he was younger, was going to speak and sign autographs. his shoes would be auctioned, and it was expected that they would sell for over five thousand dollars. all the money would go to the homeless. why does sachar include this description of the shoes in the flashback? a.to show where the shoes came from b.to show how valuable the shoes were c.to reveal why stanley was arrested d.to give background on the homeless shelter

Which words from the excerpt most contribute to the patriotic tone

1according to the passage, carol-ann normandin had all of the following symptoms except