WRITING PROMPT How does the theme of "Abuela Invents the Zero" help you understand a larger lesson about how life
experiences can shape our values? Use the details you have compiled from examining the conflict
between the characters, as well as the characters thoughts, dialogue, feelings, and actions, to:
identify the theme of the story
analyze how it is developed over the course of the text
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Remember to support your writing with evidence and inferences from the text.
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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.