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Which sentence from Wonder best reveals August's feelings through indirect characterization?
The last surgery I had was eight months ago, and I probably won't have to have any more for another couple of years.
What I wanted was to go to school, but only if I could be like every other kid going to school.
Mom sat down in a chair in front of Mr. Tushman's desk, and even though there was another chair right next to hers, I
decided to stand beside her.
I'm not exaggerating when I say this, but my heart literally started beating like I'd just run the longest race in the world.

The correct answer is B.

The author shows August's character and emotions through this line of thought.

He wants to have a normal life; he wants to go to school and make friends. However, he does not see how this could be possible. He is torn between what he wants and what he believes he cannot have because of his deformity.

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.