It is plausible to regard a collection of letters spanning youth and old age as ( of autobiography: the precession of characters who inhabit a life and a chronology of incidents turn up reliably in either form. yet autobiography, even when ostensibly steeped in candor, tends toward ( through later perspectives, afterwords, and second thoughts, whereas letters have an undeniable ( offering select glimpses of the fought and living moment.

As nina and erin were eating lunch in the central high school student cafeteria, they were discussing the news coverage about the girls' athletic coach being arrested for selling steroids to student athletes. "i think the guy just did it because they don't pay teachers enough money," nina suggested. "i bet the guy had some other kind of drug addiction he was trying to pay for," erin countered. nina and erin's ideas about the cause of the coach's drug-selling behavior are examples of: