Eduardo is 17 and loves mountain biking. he pays no attention to warnings about closed trails and often says "nothing will happen to me." according to elkind, eduardo exemplifies which aspect of adolescent thinking?

"According to Elkind, Eduardo exemplifies the personal fable aspect of adolescent thinking.

The personal fable is an observable facts held by many adolescents where their feelings and emotions are not the same as others and more enormous than those of others. With personal fable, adolescents think that they are unique and special, and therefore incapable of being wounded.

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.