Once inside Clinton Hall, the writer found a different climate. At the end of a swarming corridor a fortification had been set u
p, made of desks and tables; this was the League's information bureau, where scores of confused, excited workers waited to register for the union. Heavily bearded old men pushed through the crowd selling apples and pretzels from baskets. Which best states the author’s purpose for describing the inside of Clinton Hall in the text?
to challenge the reader’s ideas about the importance of the league
to help the reader imagine what the hall looked, felt, and smelled like
to give the reader facts about the hall’s size and the number of people there
to show the reader how the league in the past is the same as it is today
The hall, a long winding path of white walls smelled of sharpened pencil shavings. The hall was wide and bustling with people. Now the hall still is cheery as always with the faint scent of pencil shavings.
The hall, a long winding path of white walls smelled of sharpened pencil shavings. The hall was wide and bustling with people. Now the hall still is cheery as always with the faint scent of pencil shavings.
The speaker is talking about the water. During winter, the water enters the cracks and freezes and expands. It breaks the stone and makes cracks and when the water melts the holes are bigger. What he is describing is mechanical weathering which is common in nature.
