Which detail from the story most effectively shapes the theme that if we dwell too much on the past, we may miss opportunities
in the present?
O
when the narrator chooses to ignore the girl who
laughs at him at baseball tryouts
when the narrator reads the e-mail from his friend in
O Tucson and questions whether he even wants to try
out for the team
when the narrator expects a message from his friend
in Tucson but discovers it is a message from a new
friend
when the narrator goes to the skate park to inquire
about baseball tryouts

Explanation:

Number 1

try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it