Which of the following is an example of a possible short story theme?
a. there are two things that can never be avoided in this life-death and taxes.
b. evan, the main character of the story, didn't pay his taxes and had to go to jail.
c. evan, the main character of the story , should have known he had to pay his taxes

C. evan, the main character of the story , should have known he had to pay his taxes.

Explanation:

Options A and B say the same thing as C, but say it in an improper way, and confusong way, which if there were an audience, the audience would lose the main theme.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.