Select the theme that would be expressed best in the story idea below. although jack is not interested in sports, his father thinks that his son should win the letter he missed making in his own school days. many parents hope their children will be more successful than they have been themselves. some individuals miss a great deal in life because they are afraid to try new things. some individuals get into a lot of trouble because they try too many new things. even mature adults have a childlike side to their personalities. some adults do not take the ideas of young people seriously.

ANSWER: Many parents hope their children will be more successful than they have been themselves.

EXPLANATION: In the story, Jack's father is trying to fulfill his long unfulfilled desire through his son. He hopes that his son would be more successful and would achieve the milestone which he could not during his childhood. While this is a wrong way of parenting, it also puts pressure on the child to achieve the target as his parents are dependent on him. He feels a burden and at times gets depressed for all the expectations and dreams the parents have built around him.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

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