Read this excerpt from the outsiders. i’m different that way. i mean, my second-oldest brother, soda, who is sixteen-going-on-seventeen, never cracks a book at all, and my oldest brother, darrel, who we call darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story or drawing a picture, so i’m not like them. and nobody in our gang digs movies and books the way i do. for a while there, i thought i was the only person in the world that did. what is the theme of this excerpt? being part of a team is meaningful. growing up means accepting oneself. nature teaches powerful life lessons. family traditions are important.

The war of the worlds by h. g. wells but, looking, i presently saw something stirring within the then something resembling a little gray snake, about the thickness of a walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle and wriggled in the air toward me – and then another the war of the worlds (radio broadcast) by orson welles good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. now it's another one, and another. they look like tentacles to me. which sentence best describes the tone of the passage from the book compared to the passage from the radio broadcast? a. the book has a more matter-of-fact tone, b. the book has an angrier tone. c. the book has a scarier tone. d. the book has a more surprised tone.

What idea-generating technique allows members to intentionally develop unconventional or outlandish ideas? brainstorming

15. why do you think that douglas' family members and doctors do not support his decision to be phyllis' caretaker?