When the time came to go home, i could not open my locker. in my last period gym class, i hurt my ankle. today was a day when everything seemed to go wrong. tomorrow, i promise myself, i will wake up on time. first, i overslept. then i realized i had forgotten my library book. my hobby is stamp collecting. because of that, i almost missed my bus.

sort the following sentences, taken from the paragraph above, in the order which they should occur:

first, i overslept.
because of that, i almost missed my bus.
in my last period gym class, i hurt my ankle.
when the time came to go home, i could not open my locker.
tomorrow, i promise myself, i will wake up on time.
today was a day when everything seemed to go wrong.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.