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Irina18 [472]
3 years ago
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Consider the flood. How does this detail contribute to the conflict, mood, or theme of the passage?

English
1 answer:
goldfiish [28.3K]3 years ago
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The theme of the passage is that of the tension and their is conflict of interest among the people and the mood is that something life threatening has taken place

Explanation:

It was in the year 1889 during the month of may that the river cone maugh experience heavy rainfall and due to the heavy rainfall the reservoir was full and it could not with hold excess water ,due to this  a flood like situation was caused.However the members of South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club and its President Elias Unger, tried to control the situation by piling mud in order to increase the capacity of the dam ,ditches where develop for the flow of water in a controlled manner but none of the efforts worked in their favor.

Thus a situation of tension was created .After the disaster the survivors asked for legal damages from  South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club because they believed that its was due to the structural changes done by them that caused the river resourceful to swell causing such a big disaster.

The theme of the passage is that of the tension and their is conflict of interest among the people and the mood is that something life threatening has taken place

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