Explanation:
He alone knew how deep was the deluded man's chagrin at the failure of the little plot which he fancied was prospering finely
"He's so unreliable!" she said crossly.
Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.
The magazine was read quite widely even by some of the hierarchy"
I gasped at the impertinence of the suggestion
With the rapture of great winds to blow
'They are falling apart into great blocks of stone, and the forest is safer going.' AND 'No man of my tribe had seen it, not even my father, the priest. It was magic and I prayed.'
In the first quote we see that the narrator is cautious because he talks of the god-roads falling apart. He says that "the forest is safer going". These elements of this quote show us that he is taking care. The second quote shows how rare it is for the river to be seen in his tribe. He says that it "was magic" and that he prayed. One can assume that he is praying because he is in the presence of magic and he is being cautious about what may happen next.
The sentences that best support the author's claim that Sinclair's book accomplished something different from what Sinclair had hoped are:
- But Sinclair was surprised that it was his horrific description of how meat was processed that caused the biggest uproar. (paragraph 3)
- Sinclair remarked, “I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach.” (paragraph 3)
<h3>Meaning of claim</h3>
- A claim is a belief that the author or writer of a text holds. The claim that Sinclair's book accomplished something different from what he hoped can be seen in the two statements.
- In the first one, he expressed his surprise that it was because of the horrific description that an uproar was caused. In the second sentence, he remarked that while he aimed for the public's heart, he hit their stomach.
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