Read the excerpt from "dwaina brooks.”coupons cut the prices for sandwich wrapping, cookies, and mayonnaise. dwaina's uncle got them discount lunch meats from the store where he used to work. thursday night was bargain night at the bakery in nearby lancaster. they drove away with six big loaves of day-old bread for $1.78. "mama, do you think anyone at the shelter will really eat day-old bread? " dwaina asked. "we eat it," gail replied. "if it don't kill us, it won't kill them."what idea is emphasized through repetition?

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.

the answer is "the man who came here yesterday was selling magazines."