Theme and Textual Evidence
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Theme and Textual Evidence
The Last Stop
On Thursday, Camila rode the city bus home with a folder of drawings balanced on her knees. She had entered a poster contest, but the final design still looked unfinished. At the next stop, Andre climbed aboard carrying a cardboard model of the neighborhood bus route. A wheel had snapped off, and the model leaned toward the floor. Camila glanced at her folder. She had spent hours on the poster and still needed to add the route numbers. Then she noticed Andre trying to hold the model together with one hand while searching his backpack with the other. Without a word, Camila set down her folder and helped him tape the wheel back in place. When the bus turned sharply, the repaired model stayed upright. Andre smiled. “I have to show this at the library tonight. People should know which stops need better lighting.” Camila looked at her unfinished poster. Its title was “A Safer Ride for Everyone,” but she had drawn only the downtown stops. She asked Andre to show her the less-used stops on his model. Together, they marked the places where riders waited in the dark. Camila missed the contest deadline by ten minutes. The next morning, she brought her revised poster to the neighborhood transit meeting instead. Andre’s model stood beside it. As people studied the two projects, Camila realized that the best work was not always the work that won a prize.
Find the theme and prove it
Refer to “The Last Stop” for each response. Use details from the story rather than relying on what you think the characters might feel.
- City buses can turn sharply.
- Helping others can change what we consider success.
- Every contest has a strict deadline.
- Cardboard models are difficult to repair.
- Camila rides the bus home on Thursday.
- Andre carries a cardboard model of the neighborhood route.
- Camila misses the contest deadline but takes her revised poster to the transit meeting.
- The bus turns sharply after the model is repaired.
- She gets on the bus with her folder.
- She sees Andre struggling with his broken model and helps him.
- The bus turns sharply.
- She misses the deadline by ten minutes.
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