Question

Read the passage from Pushing the Bear. I looked back at the cabin, but we had passed the first bend in the wagon ruts. My grandmother's scissors and her bone hairpin and shell beads were on my dresser. The bed my father helped Knobowtee make. The nutting stone and pestles he gave us when we married. Sometimes I still heard my grandmother's voice in the cabin. I couldn’t leave. The sky passed before my eyes, and I felt myself hit the hard ground. Which statement explains the most effective use of imagery in the passage? The imagery describes what the cabin looks like. The imagery tells where the story is happening. The imagery evokes an emotional response about strong family connections. The imagery tells how the Cherokee are traveling as the sky passes before their eyes.

Answer 1

Answer:

The imagery evokes an emotional response about strong family connections.

Explanation:

The historical novel "Pushing the Bear" by Diane Glancy is an exploration of the life of the Cherokee people removed from their own lands. This recounts an experiment of the Cherokee along their journey during the Trail of Tears.

As given in the passage, imagery is used by the narrator to describe the emotional response of strong family ties. The allusion to "my grandmother’s scissors and her bone hairpin and shell beads", "the bed my father helped Knobowtee make", "the nutting stone and pestles" and the "grandmother's voice" are all reminiscence of the family and the memories left behind. And the result of all these memories made the narrator faint out of grief.

Thus, the correct answer is the third option.