Answer:
These twenty-six men show remarkable strength throughout the book, especially the twelve that survived the desert. The sun burns your skin in this desert and the peaks are pointy and scary. There are deadly animals and creatures lurking at night and water is nowhere to be found. These men had a lot of fortitude to survive this ordeal.
Explanation:
How are we supposed to do this
1. I used context clues and connotations to make inferences about the text. Words such as "'energetic," "dare," and "dream," give off positive connotations which help the reader identify the meaning of the passage. This is accomplished by the words that surround the above words in the passage, which allow the reader to guess what the above listed words mean. It is also accomplished by the connotations of the above words, which are positive and hopeful. Therefore, by using the above methods, I used context clues and the connotations of various words to decipher the meaning of the text.
