8th grade english question help urgent!

The sentences below appear in a poem with this theme:

Believing in yourself is possible even if others don’t believe in you. I was born a nobody. I was left to be tended by anybody. I was dismissed by everybody. That was all before I designated myself Somebody.

How does the use of the word designated support the poem’s theme?
Group of answer choices

It shows that the speaker now feels powerful enough to name herself.

It hints at some serious flaws in the speaker’s personality.

It provides an important clue about the character’s educational background.

It describes the pain and anguish experienced by the speaker.

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

1. the group spurned the newcomer and accepted him gladly.