Answer:
is there a story to go off of?
The author's purpose in this passage is to inform. The author is informing the reader on how Elizabethans would typically store their food. It goes into details of differences between food types and some options for storing food and getting nourishment in summer and winter.
The word is found in chapter 12, on Page. 107
Mexican- American is her nationality
The simple subject is "soup."
The simple predicate is "is."