Ihave to live with myself and so i want to be fit for myself to know. i want to be able as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye; i don't want to stand with the setting sun and hate myself for the things i have done. i don't want to keep on a closet shelf a lot of secrets about myself and fool myself as i come and go into thinking no one else will ever know the kind of person i really am, i don't want to dress up myself in sham. —"myself" edgar guest based on what you’ve learned about the first step in finding the central idea, what is the subject of this poem? keeping secrets different kinds of people knowing oneself the setting sun

The outsiders how johnny got hurt. how does this affect his personality ?

Leslie would probably have come with us if she didn’t work all summer. which is the verb phrase?

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.