IMPORTANT For the first time, Rashad sees the graffiti “Rashad is absent today.” How does he respond? What does he think when he sees it? Does he know who did it? Use textual evidence to support your answer.

When Rashad sees the graffiti for the first time he was surprised.

He thinks it is weird to be fussed over like that.

He knew who did it, he knew it was Carlos.

Explanation:

Rashad is surprised when he sees the graffiti "RASHAD IS ABSENT TODAY" for the time, "I enlarged the image and did a double take", he couldn't believe it, "I couldn’t believe it. I had become a hashtag. I had become searchable. A trending topic. Another number on someone’s chart. But to me, I was still . . .just me."

He thought, "It just seemed weird that there was so much fuss over me."

He knew that Carlos did it, "I stared at the picture. The letters, the tiny loop at the stop of the cursive s. So familiar. There was only one person I knew who did that. Carlos."

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

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

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have 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 all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.