<span>The author’s purpose in this excerpt is to prompt an emotion in the reader. The descriptive way of delivering the situation to the reader gives a sense of emotion to the reader. The prompt is by the use of words such as, "hurting," and "tears in his eyes," are words used to convey such message.</span>
Waterfall, I think
Keeps going
the basics of how life worked.
it means that he couldn't find a sign of Nancy in the apartment
