Question

Please help me with this question it is so confusing! For the first one in Part A I am stuck between C and D. Any help will be greatly appreciated. FYI, this is from About Russell, a short story written by Rita Williams Garcia.

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this narrative.
Part A
One theme of "About Russell" by Rita Williams-Garcia is that people cannot be forced to change.
Which detail best explains how the author develops this theme over the course of the text?


A)The author includes anecdotes about Russell being a mathematical genius.



B)The author includes anecdotes about Russell having friends and a girlfriend.

C) The author tells about seeing Russell as a grown-up and accepting him as is.




D)The author tells of multiple attempts to help Russell that went unanswered by him.


Question 2
Part B
Which quotation from the text best supports the conclusion that Russell is never going to change?


A)”He’d run five miles in the morning, then read in the evenings when he came home from work."




B)”We were all grown and out of the house, except for Russell."




C)”All of Russell’s prospects were far from his grasp, physically and mentally."



D)”Russell’s strongest weapon was his 'NO' and he used it often."

Answer 1

C) The author tells about seeing Russell as a grown-up and accepting him as is. That is the detail that best explains how the author develops the theme over the course of the text. In ¨About Russell¨ the author starts describing how his brother used to be as they were children and continues describing how he gradually changed as they grew up. She had a vision for what her brother would become which was different from what he actually became. But by the end of the text she states that a ¨A grown man, Russell simply will not do what he doesn’t want to¨. That indicated that he could not be forced to change and therefore she accepted him as he was indicated by the statement ¨...my family simply accepts him as is¨

That's for part A

And part B is D I guess

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