PLS I NEED HELP ASAAAP Refer to A Wrinkle in Time for a complete version of this text.

Read the excerpt from Chapter 3.

With a sudden enthusiastic gesture Calvin flung his arms out wide, as though he were embracing Meg and her mother, the whole house. “How did all this happen? Isn’t it wonderful? I feel as though I were just being born! I’m not alone anymore! Do you realize what that means to me?”

“But you’re good at basketball and things,” Meg protested. “You’re good in school. Everybody likes you.”

“For all the most unimportant reasons,” Calvin said. “There hasn’t been anybody, anybody in the world that I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn’t me.”

Meg took a batch of forks from the drawer and turned them over and over, looking at them. “I’m all confused again.”

Question 1
Part A

What theme is developed in the excerpt?

Popularity comes with athletic talent and intelligence.

There is great comfort in making connections with others.

One can never show enough gratitude for the kindness of others.

Talking about strong feelings can be upsetting.
Question 2
Part B

Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

Meg took a batch of forks from the drawer and turned them over and over, looking at them. “’I’m all confused again.’”

“‘I feel as though I were just being born! I’m not alone anymore! Do you realize what that means to me?’”

“With a sudden enthusiastic gesture Calvin flung his arms out wide, as though he were embracing Meg and her mother, the whole house.”

“‘But you’re good at basketball and things,’ Meg protested. ‘You’re good in school. Everybody likes you.’”