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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by sanity We'd like to think

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of it is the playground of the unimaginative You check

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the following passage True That lantern on like that we

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do that just came through it Okay here we go

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which of the following story elements best supports the recurring

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theme of sanity and the answer choices are here Okay

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well you know they say a sign of true insanity

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is believing that you're saying but trying to murder someone

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because he's got a weird eyeball is also a pretty

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good sign So which of these choices best highlights the

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passages theme of sanity Well it's admirable that our murderous

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narrator sticks to a tight schedule but staying up every

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night to research premeditated murder isn't exactly the hallmark of

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mental health so that's not really the best choice and

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it would be a nice gesture if he brought the

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old man breakfast every morning But first of all he

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doesn't actually do that and secondly that wouldn't actually prove

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his sanity insane People can serve breakfast to just visited

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denny's all right An abstinence and self control are admirable

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qualities but not so much when you're only abstaining for

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murder because an old man happens to close his eyes

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But do you know what does support the passages theme

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of sanity Whatever could it be You asked the narrator

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makes continual appeals to the audience using the second person

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in an attempt to convince the reader he hasn't completely

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lost his marbles He's begging the reader to understand His

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motivations Trying to explain himself to show he's still in

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full control So the answer is a because if you

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don't believe we're saying who will Certainly not Our shrink

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