<span>struggling to survive through seemingly insurmountable odds.</span>
Answer:
C) One passage provides objective economic data about the river while the other tells the story of two boys adventuring on its water.
Explanation:
The main idea of Mary O'Dell's passage is to present the Mississippi river as an important resource which was used for development of river transport, thus
contributing to the nation's economic growth.
Twain's passage, although also mentioning Mississippi, does so only to give his story a setting, a place for adventures of the two wannabe pirates.
So, the basic contrast between two passages is best described in answer C.
The answer is
2) the situation continues for years without pause
It is believable that someone gets hit with an umbrella, it also can happen that the narrator thinks about going to the police, or punches the man in the head, but Magic Realism tries to go further from reality in real life situations, this way the hits cointinuing through the years is the magica realism in the story.
The correct answer is A. Non-fiction
