That’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like th
em—“Eyes in My Head,” “X’s and O’s,” “Who’s Watching Hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. Based on the details in this excerpt, it can be inferred that Scotty has learned how to hide his true emotions. was famous years ago before going into hiding. has developed a unique musical style. was confused by having gone unnoticed for so long.
It can be inferred that Scotty has developed a unique musical style
Explanation:
Based on the details in the excerpt, it can be inferred that Scotty has developed a unique musical style.
From the excerpt, Scotty is described as someone who has been writing and singing songs he has been writing for a long time underground that "<u>no one had ever heard or anything like them" which shows the uniqueness of his music</u>
The main idea of this text is how a wildlife photographer nearly did not succeed in snapping a valuable shot of a deer in the woods.
The clues given in the text are elements of suspense like "very slowly", "carefully", and "holding my breath". There are also time indicators such as "just as I was..." and "an instant later".
The clues listed above give the impression that the narrator was likely to fail and under temporal pressure. They make the author's pride after this stressful feat perceivable in the text.
The last line conveys the importance of this photograph to the author by mentoning that it is now printed out, "framed" and displayed as decoration in the author's house ("hangs above our fireplace").