Read the excerpts from "why the sun is brighter than the moon.”
two of these fairies were sisters named araw and buwan. araw was the younger sister, as beautiful as she was kind and honest. her older sister, on the other hand, was selfish, jealous, and mean. these qualities distorted her appearance.
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their mother watched what was happening and was saddened to see what her first-born child was becoming. she prayed to god that he would buwan learn kindness.
which statement best describes the message of this fable?
forgiveness is divine.
beauty is as beauty does.
blood is thicker than water.
envy is a poisonous emotion.

i'll write a docs for you. hold on for a moment

answer: i looked it up

explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.