Central Idea 1: Readers enjoyed "The Jumping Frog," and with its success, Twain took a first step toward wide recognition.
Central Idea 2: It is difficult to succeed as a writer without the encouragement and recommendation of others.
Which quotation most clearly helps develop the first central idea?
The Jumping Frog] reached Carleton in time, but he didn't think much of it, and was not willing to go to the typesetting expense of adding it to
the book." (paragraph 3)
"The Jumping Frog' appeared in the last number of that paper, was the most joyous feature of the obsequies, and was at once copied in the
newspapers of America and England." (paragraph 3)
"He performed this office, then handed the result to me, and I went to Carleton's establishment with [the collection]." (paragraph 4)
"Webb had made an appointment for me with Carleton; otherwise I never should have gotten over that frontier." (paragraph 4)