Read the excerpt from Spencer’s narrative. I could not have been more stunned. "He” was a "she”! Our new football coach was a fe
male. My mind drifted to that day last week. We had all been waiting in the locker room to meet our new coach, secretly wondering what he would be like. Would he be tough but fair? Would he be demanding but understanding? Would he motivate us before each game with a rousing speech the way Coach Jackson always had? These thoughts were abruptly interrupted when our new coach entered the locker room, stood before us, and commanded our attention. Spencer decided to structure his narrative to start at the end. How did this affect his arrangement of the plot? Spencer had to include the most exciting and engaging parts of the narrative. Spencer had to include a conclusion since the reader already knew what happened. Spencer had to provide detailed background information about his new football coach. Spencer had to go back and recount the events that led to that moment.
Answer: D) Spencer had to go back and recount the events that led to that moment.
Explanation: In the given excerpt from Spencer's narrative, he describes his surprise when he find out that their new football coach was a woman, he starts to recount the events that led to that moment when they found out that she was a woman, they were wondering what there new coach will be like, and they were interrupted by the coach herself. So the correct answer is option D.
The title could be interpreted as a story about a man's dream and the confusion of was he dreaming or did it actually happen. Or it could be interpreted as a delusion a man had and he is having trouble figuring out the difference between reality or imagination.
