Question

But the husky is far from uninteresting. As a type of endurance, no better evolved product of natural selection need be sought. If ever a species has been born and bred of hard times, it has. Only the fittest, in a struggle for existence extending through a thousand thousand generations, have survived. And they are well fit. Which best states the author's two purposes in this excerpt? A)to persuade the reader that huskies are endangered and to entertain the reader with humor B)to inform the reader about natural selection and to entertain the reader with a story about a husky family C)to entertain the reader with an adventure story and to inform the reader that huskies struggle D)to inform the reader about huskies and to persuade the reader that huskies are interesting

Answer 1

Answer:

The sentence which best states the author's two purposes in this excerpt is:

D) to inform the reader about huskies and to persuade the reader that huskies are interesting.

Explanation:

The excerpt we are analyzing here was taken from Jack London's essay "Husky-The Wolf Dog of the North." We can notice this passage has two purposes.

First, let's pay attention to the fact that is begins with "But the husky is far from uninteresting." What London is doing here is trying to show his readers that they should pay attention to Huskies, that there is something captivating about them.

Then, he moves on to explain how Huskies are a result of natural selection, how they are the product of evolution and an amazing example of "survival of the fittest". He is now offering information about the breed, about its capacity to endure and adapt.

Therefore, as we can see, London's two purposes in this passage were to inform the reader about huskies and to persuade the reader that huskies are interesting.