Thesis statement
( summarizes the main point of claim in an essay, text, article ect...)
The narrator cares about the elephant and finds it valuable.
I hope this hint helps!
(the other answer is wrong btw!)
The figurative language being used in the passage is an
example of Jargon. It is because based on the passage, the priest made use of
religious terms in his everyday speaking habit that made it to be hard for a
normal person to do so without any religious background in which Jargon is
being defined as a characteristic language in which is used by a particular or
specific group.
Answer:
following decades, shopping migrated out to supermarkets and, later, malls and big-box stores.
Explanation:
in the past, people did their shopping close to home, everyone knew everyone, they were like a family. Its refelect cultural and social life. These are low cost, so everyone in the neighborhood went there to shop.
But nowadays, shopping migrated out to supermarkets and, later, malls and big-box stores, because families acquired cars and driving has been growing at such a rapid pace. Therefore, neighborhood stores have fewer and fewer customers.