Read the passages from the article "Kids Save the Day-'Heroes' Deemed by Coast Guard!" Then answer the question about implicit and explicit ideas.
"Wow. What is that?" Simon Brimm remembers calling out to his long-time friend, Hillary Green.
He and Hillary had been friends since preschool, but they lived in different parts of the state now.
They hadn't seen each other all summer. Simon, Hillary, and their families were taking a vacation
together before middle school started next week. Zavier Gonzales and his cousins were also
vacationing at the seaside that weekend. The wind had picked up and the seas were quite rough as
swimmers, water boarders, and surfers struggled to stay afloat. Separated from his family, and
adrift on a small raft, it was Xavier that Simon saw bobbing along on the horizon.
Separated from his family, and adrift on a small raft, it was Xavier that Simon saw bobbing along on the
horizon.
What implicit idea is suggested by the author's use of "adrift"? (5 points)
Xavier was not on a water board, so he could not stay afloat.
Xavier did not have control of the raft.
The rest of Xavier's family were also bobbing on the waves.
The calm seas made drifting pleasurable.

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in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.

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