Question

Read the excerpt from a short story.

Answer 1

The correct answer is option C: It forces readers to "grapple" with their own mortality. In this excerpt, Stephen King forces the readers to put themselves in the shoes of a young character so as to scare the readers as if they were that age. King tries to terrorize the readers.

Answer 2

The right answer is "It forces readers to “grapple” with their own mortality."

King wants the reader to experience the same feeling as the character of his works. In the passage he describes a dangerous and frightening environment in which the character must walk and perceive its mortality, since the environment provides a feeling of possible death. King describes this environment so thoroughly that it makes the reader feel the same sense of character, a sense of danger, fear and mortality.