Chaz and michael used to be best friends but had grown apart when they started high school. chaz, a good-looking baseball player, was accepted into the popular group, while michael, a shy "bookworm," kept quiet and tried not to draw attention to himself. after a party, chaz gets into trouble and is abandoned by his new friends. michael agrees to him, even though they haven't spoken in a long time. which sentence best states the complex theme of the passage?

Read this excerpt from we’ve got a job: the 1963 children’s march. though connor was commissioner of public safety, blacks knew that it wasn't their health and safety he intended to protect. and he certainly didn't put out their fires. between the late 1940s and early 1960s, more than fifty black homes and churches in birmingham were bombed. one neighborhood was hit so often, it was called "dynamite hill." no one was ever prosecuted, even when the police could identify the bombers. what is the tone of the excerpt? inquisitive sentimental apologetic scornful