Answer:
In what way is the informational content of this passage used to make a claim? The story of Lowell supports the claim that. cutting-edge technology is needed for scientific. discovery.
Explanation:
The theme of this excerpt is that a boy is joking around and when the time came to actually cry out wolf, no one listened. " At last a Wolf really did come, and the Boy cried, "Wolf! Wolf!" as loud as he could, but the people were so used to hearing him call that they took no notice of his cries for help." This quote from the story explains how the bots misbehaving got him no where but being ignored.
In a narrative, the tone refers to the attitide that a writer has towards a subject or towards his audience. It is conveyed by the choice of words and the events that occur through the story. In this story, Rudyard Kipling conveys a <em>comic tone</em> (humorous, funny) in several instances. Two examples are:
- “He went East, and he found All-the-Cow there-was feeding in the field that had been made ready for her, and she licked her tongue round a whole forest at a time, and swallowed it and sat down to chew her cud.” (It is comical because of the cow’s ability to eat a whole forest at a time).
- “‘Payah kun,’ said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the bare patch where she had eaten, and upon the place where she had sat down, and one became the great Indian Desert, and the other became the Desert of Sahara, and you can look them out on the map.” (It is comical because the cow caused the deserts to exist and also because it is used as a silly explanation for a real phenomenon).
