Read this excerpt from The Outsiders. "I’m okay. Quit shaking me, Darry, I’m okay.”

He stopped instantly. "I’m sorry.”

He wasn’t really. Darry isn’t ever sorry for anything he does. It seems funny to me that he should look just exactly like my father and act exactly the opposite from him. My father was only forty when he died and he looked twenty-five and a lot of people thought Darry and Dad were brothers instead of father and son. But they only looked alike—my father was never rough with anyone without meaning to be.

A universal theme found in this excerpt is that

The break what is a theme of this passage? a. one should be kind because it is right to treat others well, not in order to be rewarded. b. every good act one does is returned in the form of good acts from others. c. people who allow others to take advantage of them punish themselves. d. slow progress and frustration with others is the penalty for being overly focused on goodness. how does the interaction with the rose vendor affect faizula? a. it reawakens his belief in friendship. b. it encourages him to be less disciplined. c. it humbles his pride in accomplishments. d. it affirms his efforts to be virtuous.