Answer:
A retrospective to a turning point in life.
Explanation:
The story is a reflection of Mama's life and the events in her life that have changed her personality. The event mentioned in the question is part of one of Mama's reflection's about her past; it is a retrospective of one of the turning points in her life. While Mama never bothered to do the hard job, being hooked in the side by a cow lost her motivation to keep living the old way. This part signifies the moment that Mama gets tired and loses her love of her way of living.
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Read Abalone, Abalone, Abalone, by Toshio Mori
Why does the author describe the extent to which the narrator is puzzled by mr. abe’s collecting?
Why does the author describe the extent to which the narrator is puzzled by Mr. Abe’s collecting?
A. To give insight into the narrator’s culture
B. To explain the narrator’s relationship with Mr. Abe
C. To establish the narrator as unreliable.
D. To make the narrator’s later shift in understanding more significant
Answer: D. To make the narrator’s later shift in understanding more significant
Explanation:
At first, the narrator highlights how much he´s intrigued about why would Mr. Abe keep collecting and polishing abalone shells since his front porch was practically full of them already. This initial mystery becomes more significant when the narrator finds an abalone shell, understands the reason for that practice, and starts a collection of his own.
[ (a.) What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support; ]
That to the highth of this great Argument
[ (b.) I may assert th' Eternal Providence, ]
Answer:
This is descriptive text.
Explanation:
As the name says, a descriptive text is one that describes something or someone in detail. This type of text has a large number of adjectives that are used to show the characteristics of what is being described, in addition to showing the details of the description, allowing a mental image to be created in the reader's mind.
The text above gives many details about Jordan, and the location where he is. describing the place and showing all the details and its composition, therefore, we can say that this is a descriptive text.
