The Latin root per-means "through or during and the Latin sistere means "to stand." With this in mind, try to infer the meaning of the word persists as it is used in the final paragraph. Write your definition of persists here and explain how you determined its meaning.

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".

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the characters are fiction but they are based off of people that were reaky in that situation