Read the passage and answer the question This reading

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Read the passage and answer the question This reading passage is an example of which theme a belief in superstition money the conflict between civilization and natural life honor and morality English X And I about made up my mind to pray and see if I couldn t try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better So I kneeled down But the words wouldn t come Why wouldn t they It warn t no use to try and hide it from Him Nor from ME neither I knowed very well why they wouldn t come It was because my heart warn t right it was because I warn t square it was because I was playing double I was letting ON to give up sin but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all I was trying to make my mouth SAY I would do the right thing and the clean thing and go and write to that nigger s owner and tell where he was but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it You can t pray a lie I found that out