Question

Alfonso said over and over that she was too nice to pull a stunt like that. But Ernie argued that she lived only two blocks from where those girls had told them to wait, that she was in the same grade, and, the clincher, that she had ponytails. Secretly, however, Ernie was jealous that his brother, two years younger than himself, might have found a girlfriend. A theme in this excerpt is expressed by

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure it's C if I'm wrong I'm so sorry and I'll try to do better next time

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Answer 2

Hey there! (again)

If you are talking about the story by Gary Soto ("Broken Chain"), if so! Well the theme in the excerpt above is expressed by presenting the conflicts between 2 characters in the story (well excerpt)

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