Read the excerpt from I Never Had It Made. "I know you’re a good ballplayer," he [Rickey] barked. "What I don’t know is whether you have the guts."

I knew it was all too good to be true. Here was a guy questioning my courage. That virtually amounted to him asking me if I was a coward. Mr. Rickey or no Mr. Rickey, that was an insinuation hard to take. I felt the heat coming up into my cheeks.

What effect do the details and descriptions in this passage have on the narrative?

They show the drama and intensity of the situation.
They show how angry and annoyed Rickey feels.
They show how sad and ashamed Robinson feels.
They show the confusion and anxiety of the situation.

citizens are given 25 years of life to prove their worth to society; if they fail to do great things

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."