Answer and Explanation:
"The Wretched and the Beautiful", by E. Lily Yu develops the theme of how refugees are perceived and treated, but does so through an impactful metaphor - aliens.
In the story, the extraterrestrials that first appear on a beach are received with violence. Humans are quick to attack them, seeing them as dangerous, unwelcomed visitors. Those aliens ask for refuge, which then leads humans to confusion. They do not wish to help, to get involved in someone else's problems.
A second group of aliens arrive and convinces the humans that the first group consists of criminals. Humans are more than relieved when they realize they are not the ones who will deal with those first aliens.
It is important to notice that the first aliens had an atrocious appearance, while the second group was beautiful. How come humans accepted what the beautiful ones said as the truth, but not what the ugly ones said? Our judgment is quick. We are scared of what is different, of what is foreign, of what is helpless. We like what is similar to us, what will not demand anything from us.
Answer:
C. The long, detailed sentences slow the pace and provide background information.
Explanation:
<u>Pacing is the speed at which the narration takes place, or a story is told</u>. It can be fast-paced or slow-paced but it does not include the speed of the story, but just the narrative voice.
In the given excerpt from "Lather and Nothing Else", the author Hernando Tellez provides the narrative voice through the character of the barber. A certain Captain Torres had come to the barbershop owned by a revolutionary to get himself groomed, at which the barber had an internal conflict to whether kill the captain and save his revolutionary comrades or do his work and hide his true self from the captain. And as given in the passage, the <u>barber describes how the captain's beard had grown and begun a bit by bit slow-paced description of the captain's face and the preparations he did to get the lather worked up</u>. These<u> long and detailed sentences slows the pace of the story and at the same time provide background information.
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Thus, the correct answer is option C.
Belonged is your possessive noun in that sentence.