Read the excerpt below from the novel It by Stephen King and answer the question that follows. Richie had felt a mad, exhilarating kind of energy growing in the room. . . . He thought he recognized the feeling from his childhood, when he felt it everyday and had come to take it merely as a matter of course. He supposed that, if he had ever thought about that deep-running aquifer of energy as a kid (he could not recall that he ever had), he would have simply dismissed it as a fact of life, something that would always be there, like the color of his eyes . . . . Well, that hadn't turned out to be true. The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself—that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller . . . purpose, maybe, or goals . . . . Source: King, Stephen. It. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print. Which theme would be advanced by the tone in the above passage best?

a- Despite age and experience, some people never grow up.
b- Childhood has a magical quality that slips away.
c- Don't take childhood for granted.
d- Children should be given the chance to expand their vast energy.

Childhood has a magical quality that slips away

Explanation:

Richie had a great deal of energy as a child, one which he would have thought(if he ever did) would perpetually remain in him.  As he grows to become an adult, the great amount of energy he felt in his childhood began to dwindle.

The tone of the passage expresses how the quality of man's energy and vigor declines with age. This is evident from the last paragraph; "The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself—that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller . . . purpose, maybe, or goals . . . ."

Option b is the best theme for the passage.

an argumentative essay presents objectively a topic and its main characteristics. besides, it states all this information and facts by giving authentic and substantiated proof to the audience. by contrast, a persuasive text purpose is to convince the audience about some facts by presenting them according to his/her emotions and feelings. the main purpose of a persuasive text is to convince the audience to agree with the author´s opinion. on the other hand, in the argumentative essay, the author leads the writer to recognize his/her point of view as the correct one.

its c

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