Question

What effect is accomplished by the author's choice to end the story with this paragraph?

Answer 1

We need the paragraph to be able to find the answer.

Answer 2

Here's the paragraph!!

Excerpt from The Crocodile’s Treason

South African Folktale

Crocodile was, in the days when animals still could talk, the acknowledged foreman of all water creatures and if one should judge from appearances one would say that he still is. But in those days it was his especial duty to have a general care of all water animals, and when one year it was exceedingly dry, and the water of the river where they had lived dried up and became scarce, he was forced to make a plan to trek over to another river a short distance from there