"Where are we supposed to go to the bathroom?" he asked Magnet. Magnet gestured with his arms to the great expanse around them.
"Pick a hole, any hole," he said. Stanley staggered across the lake, almost falling over a dirt pile. Behind him he heard Magnet say, "But first make sure nothing's living in it." After leaving Myra's house, Elya wandered aimlessly through the town, until he found himself down by the wharf. He sat on the edge of a pier and stared down into the cold, black water. He could not understand how Myra had trouble deciding between him and Igor. He thought she loved him. —Holes, Louis Sachar What word choices help the author make a smooth transition from the present time frame to the flashback? “Stanley staggered” and “Elya wandered” “Magnet gestured” and “[Elya] sat” “Magnet say” and “[Elya] could not understand” “Stanley staggered” and “[Elya] stared”
The word choices that help the author make a smooth transition from the present time frame to the flashback is <u>“Magnet say” and “[Elya] could not understand"</u> because it was what Magnet said earlier about him not urinating inside any hole with a living thing inside that helped transit to the present time frame where Elya was confused about why Myra could not choose him over Igor.
I would say that the major aspect of narrative nonfiction that I can trace in this excerpt from Theodore Dreiser's "My Brother Paul" is A) reflection. The narrator is reflecting on his past, and thinking about who the person who truly and completely understood him was.
