Question

Read the excerpt from The Red Umbrella. Papá’s somber mood frightened me. "Did something happen?”"No, but after . . .”My heart thumped loudly in my ears. "Are they going to arrest you again?” I asked."No,” he said."Does it have something to do with that man who came by a little while ago?” I thought about the short man wearing a hat who’d stayed in the shadows of our front porch talking to Papá. How does the setting affect what Lucía thinks about the man who visited Papá? A. The outdoor location causes her to wonder why he was not invited inside the house. B. The secretive location causes her to suspect that he is the reason for Papá’s mood. C. Knowing that the government could arrest Papá again causes Lucía to think he is from the government. D. Knowing that the man is breaking social standards by not greeting the family causes Lucía to distrust him.

Answer 1

The way the setting affected what Lucia thinks of the man who visited Papa is that B. The secretive location causes her to suspect that he is the reason for Papá’s mood.

How did the setting influence Lucia?

When papa came back into the house, he had a somber mood which frightened Lucia and made her think that Papa was in some kind of trouble.  She suspected that the short man who was wearing a hat might be behind the mood of papa.

This thought of hers came about as a result of the setting where papa met the short man wearing the hat. The fact that it was a secretive location of the shadows in the front porch is why Lucia suspected that the man was suspicious enough to be behind papa's mood.

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