In "this is what it means to say phoenix, arizona," how does the flashback to thomas's leap off the school roof contribute to the story?

“It adds surprise by showing that Thomas is brave in a way the other boys aren’t.” Just took the test and got it correct, hope this helps!

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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