<span>The author’s purpose is often and commonly three things; to
entertain, to inform, and to persuade.</span>
Answer:there were so many ways the setting of Adam and Eve inspired the monkey gargen
Explanation: the monkey garden was depicted as a place always in spring, where the children could be themselves without adult intrusion or supervision and where they could be one with and commune with nature. It was filled with flowers and fruit trees; the children going so far as to say the garden had existed before any other thing.
Another similarity is seen when the monkey garden started falling apart, with weeds in the flower beds and dead cars all around after the slow corruption, whereby everything was exposed for what they were.
Muir's use of diction in this paragraph, clearly shows how effective his language. The bolded words, like difficult, force, crooked, struggling, etc. create a tense, painful, and frustrating mood. Muir uses these words describe how his journey was through the wading bogs, and swamps and he uses these words to describe what he went through before finding the Calypso Borealis.
