"I'm so fat. I don’t feel very pretty, I really don't A lot of boys like me though But they like me I guess because eh.. I, I feel really great, because like, my friends like me I'm like fu. ck! I’ma really... I really fu. ck But they really like me, I'm like a mama. I like that... Can't be kind and gentle to people all the time, it doesn't work Because like people got ra. ped and mugged and I know these people that died" "You know a lot about dr. ugs" "Oh, I live for dr. ugs. It's great. Someday I want a baby But it's really funny, I really don't want a father I just want the baby for me It's really selfish" "What stuff did you take today?" "I feel like I’ve taken speed"

Read this excerpt from holes. he had no sailing experience, but the ship’s captain signed him aboard. the captain could see that elya was a man of great strength. not everybody could carry a full-grown pig up the side of a mountain. it wasn’t until the ship had cleared the harbor and was heading out across the atlantic that he suddenly remembered his promise to carry madame zeroni up the mountain. he felt terrible. what information does this flashback provide about elya? a.elya did not intend to break his promise to madame zeroni. b.madame zeroni is very angry and disappointed in elya. c.elya is terribly afraid of madame zeroni’s curse. d.elya does not care what happened to madame zeroni.

Me which theme is developed by the changing relationship between the narrator and his daughter in this excerpt ? as she grew older, she spent more of her time with girls. so much time indeed did she spend with them that she came no more, as she used to do, to her father’s room. i was scarcely on speaking terms with her. when mini and her father stop communicating, it develops the theme that children should not speak unless spoken to. as mini becomes more independent, it develops the theme that parents must learn to let go as their children grow up. as mini spends more time with friends, it develops the theme that young people are more influenced by peers than by parents. when mini and her father see each other far less often, it develops the theme that absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Compare and contrast spoon river anthology