Question

Which two excerpts from Baseball Saved Us represent cause-and-effect relationships?

"We weren’t in a camp that was fun, like summer camp."


"The kids started to call me names and nobody talked to me, even though I didn’t do anything bad."


"Back in school, before Camp, I was shorter and smaller than the rest of the kids. I was always the last to be picked for any team when we played games."


"‘…America is at war with Japan, and the government thinks that Japanese Americans can’t be trusted.’"

Answer 1

"Back in school, before Camp, I was shorter and smaller than the rest of the kids. I was always the last to be picked for any team when we played games."

"‘…America is at war with Japan, and the government thinks that Japanese Americans can’t be trusted.’"

Step-by-step explanation:

Although you did not present the excerpts to which the question refers, we can consider the two options selected above to be the correct answers. This is because cause and effect relationships are those where one element causes another element to occur. In this case, in the first option, we can see that the narrator was always the last one to be chosen for the teams (effect) because he was the smallest child in the camp (cause). In the second option, we can see that no one trusted Japanese-American citizens (effect) because the American government was at war with Japan (cause).