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The tools used in a text to support the information presented by the author are called textual evidence. This evidence aims to show that the author's statements are true, presenting facts that justify the statements presented.
In that case, to find out what kind of evidence Rodriguez used to support the claims in his text, you should read the text and pay attention to the following elements:
1. If Rodrigues justifies his statement, with a short story that has an ironic and playful tone, it is because he used an anecdote.
2. If he justified the statements by presenting graphs, rankings, numbers and mathematical elements, it is because he used statistics.
3. If he used the opinion of someone who is an expert in the subject he is presenting, it is because he used the testimony of an expert.
Mary Flannery O’Connor was an American writer, she wrote two important novels, “Wise Blood” and “The Violent Bear it Away”, and many short stories.
The “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” tells the story of an old woman and her daughter who is deaf and mute and live by themselves in a farm. The old lady wants to marry her daughter and a man who arrived at the farm to help fix problems at the farm seems like the perfect candidate for the daughter. After some time the man, Mr. Shiftlet, accepts to marry Lucynell, but on one occasion he left her sleeping in a road restaurant and leaves forever.
The general idea of the novel is that of a stranger who arrives to the lives of two women and provokes a change in their lives, just as in “Good Country People”.
The stories with the Southern Gothic literature style often focused on grotesque themes. While it may include supernatural elements, it mainly focuses on damaged, even delusional, characters.
So, the answer for this question is:
A. half an arm
