Question

What is most likely the author’s intent in the follow passage (paragraph 4) of Living to tell the tale? “When we turned the corner, the dust burned my feet through the weave of my sandals. The feeling of being forsaken became unbearable. Then I saw myself and I saw my mother, just as I saw, when I was a boy, the mother and sister of the third whom Maria Consuegra had killed with a single shot one week earlier, when he tried to break into her house.”
A) to show that the narrator and his mother have a family in the small town that they have been isolated from.

B) to show the difference between the narrators and the thief’s mother through a comparison

c) to describe how the town they are traveling in is a deserted as it was in the narrators memories

d) to show the narrator making the connection that he and his mother are abandoned like the thief’s family

Answer 1

The correct answer would be option D:"To show the narrator making the connection that he and his mother are abandoned like the thief's family", this is because the author says that he "saw myself and my mother", which means that he feels identified to the situation that the thief's mother and sister lived (being abandoned), enough so that he had a "deja vu" when living the experience for himself.

Option A is not correct because in no part of the excerpt does the author say that he has other family that is not his mother. Option B is not correct because there is only one narrator, not two. Option C is not correct because it never says that the town is deserted.