Which of the following statements best describes how the author develops the theme of "The Lesson"?
A
by sharing Matt's desire to play basketball with his friends.
B
by contrasting Stan's attitude about helping Mr. Amato to Matt's attitude about
helping Mr. Amato.
by explaining Mr. Amato will use his computer in a new and practical way.
D
by contrasting Matt's initial feelings of his neighbor to how Matt feels about his
neighbor at the end of the story.

By contrasting Matt initial feelings of his neighbor to how Matt feels about his neighbor at the end of the story

answer: c.   like someone who knows how to behave in public

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.