Create a paraphrase of the following sentence from "the cold equations: " (10 points) she began writing another, twice looking up at the chronometer as though she feared the black hand might reach its rendezvous before she had finished.

It was fifteen minutes before i could work myself up to go and humble myself to a ; but i done it, and i warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. i didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and i wouldn’t done that one if i’d a knowed it would make him feel that way. in at least one hundred words, describe what central theme in the adventures of huckleberry finn emerges in this excerpt, and how its emergence relates to the social norms of the time.