After all that dust and dark, the light from the plaza makes me squinch my eyes like if I just came out of the movies. My
brother Keeks is drawing squiggly lines on the concrete with a wedge of glass and the heel of his shoe. My brother Junior
squatting against the entrance, talking to a lady and man.
They're not from here. Ladies don't come to church dressed in pants. And everybody knows men aren't supposed to wear
shorts.
"¿Quieres chicle?" the lady asks in a Spanish too big for her mouth.
The irony in this excerpt contributes most to which of the following themes?

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".

fond of fighting is the answer

i would need the dialogue to answer this.