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“How did Faulkner pull it off?” is a question many a fledgling writer has asked themselves while struggling through a period of apprenticeship like that novelist John Barth describes in his 1999 talk "My Faulkner." Barth “reorchestrated” his literary heroes, he says, “in search of my writerly self... downloading my innumerable predecessors as only an insatiable green apprentice can.” Surely a great many writers can relate when Barth says, “it was Faulkner at his most involuted and incantatory who most enchanted me.” For many a writer, the Faulknerian sentence is an irresistible labyrinth. His syntax has a way of weaving itself into the unconscious, emerging as fair to middling imitation.
While studying at Johns Hopkins University, Barth found himself writing about his native Eastern Shore Maryland in a pastiche style of “middle Faulkner and late Joyce.” He may have won some praise from a visiting young William Styron, “but the finished opus didn’t fly—for one thing, because Faulkner intimately knew his Snopses and Compsons and Sartorises, as I did not know my made-up denizens of the Maryland marsh.” The advice to write only what you know may not be worth much as a universal commandment. But studying the way that Faulkner wrote when he turned to the subjects he knew best provides an object lesson on how powerful a literary resource intimacy can be
Her mother was working at the restaurant before you came here.
Answer:
C). to introduce the main character.
Explanation:
As per the question, the given excerpt as the section of the story aims to 'introduce a main character' i.e. 'Father Wolf.' The details about the routine('seven o'clock...woke up'), behavior('scratched himself...spread...paws' etc.), and his daily task('time to hunt again') display that the author is introducing him to the readers by offering details regarding him.
The descriptions display that there is no conflict about which the author would create uncertainty or suspense and since there is no tension, breaking it is out of the context. Neither does the author talk about a problem whose solution he seems to be providing. Thus, the only logical option is <u>option C</u> which is the correct answer.
Could America have bombed India if they weren’t allies?
