26. Nick calls the groups of people "swirls and eddies of people I don't know." What could be mean by this metaphor?

he chooses to climb mount everest and decided not to any more due to the 1,000s of people making a line on the mountion

explanation:

a conclusion based on evidence is an example of a. inference

- "these rights are natural and god-given to all men equally." (i disagree cuz i kind of think it's 'a' but who knows.)

innocence can be defined as the lack of sin, relating it with the lack of guilt, also it can be a synonime of naivety. most people agree that sins are made out of experiences, intentionally or not, as well as you stop being naive once certain things happen to you throughout your life. so, with this explained, the chosen answers are:

when the boy saw the effects of war, he no longer viewed life as innocent.

the loss of innocence is a result of gaining experience and making mistakes.

one way to define innocence is as a lack of worldly experience or sophistication.