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Stanley's father was an inventor. To be a successful inventor you need three things: intelligence, perseverance, and just a little bit of luck. Stanley's father was smart and had a lot of perseverance. Once he started a project he would work on it for years, often going days without sleep. He just never had any luck. In the above excerpt, how did the author support the idea that Stanley’s dad “had a lot of perseverance”? through the words of Stanley’s dad through the actions of Stanley’s dad through the feelings of Stanley’s dad through the thoughts of Stanley’s dad

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: Not every Stanley Yelnats has been a failure,” Stanley’s mother often pointed out, whenever Stanley or his father became so discouraged that they actually started to believe in the curse. The first Stanley Yelnats, Stanley’s great-grandfather, had made a fortune in the stock market. “He couldn’t have been too unlucky.”

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