Read the following excerpt from by Robert Louis Stevenson, then find the correct answer:
Memoirs and Portraits
And all the while I was aware that this life of sea-bathing and sun-burning was for me but a holiday. In that year cannon were roaring for days together on French battlefields; and I would sit in my isle (I call it mine, after the use of lovers) and think upon the war, and the loudness of these far-away battles, and the pain of the men's wounds, and the weariness of their marching. And I would think too of that other war which is as old as mankind, and is indeed the life of man: the unsparing war, the grinding slavery of competition; the toil of seventy years, dear-bought bread, precarious honour, the perils and pitfalls, and the poor rewards. It was a long look forward; the future summoned me as with trumpet calls, it warned me back as with a voice of weeping and beseeching; and I thrilled and trembled on the brink of life, like a childish bather on the beach.
How does the line in bold demonstrate Stevenson's purpose?
It describes his excitement about the future, as well as his fear of it.
It describes his struggle to learn to play music with any level of skill.
It describes his internal battle with the concept of war and destruction.
It describes his need to understand the process of getting a career
Answer:
It describes his excitement about the future, as well as his fear of it
Explanation:
According to the following excerpt from by Robert Louis Stevenson, the narrator describes the war and how he only had temporal peace and respite. He also thought about "the other war" which entailed seventy years of toil, and then little rest.
The line in bold demonstrate Stevenson's purpose by describing his excitement about the future, as well as his fear of it.
N. B. The lines in bold are "the life of man: the unsparing war, the grinding slavery of competition; the toil of seventy years, dear-bought bread, precarious honour, the perils and pitfalls, and the poor rewards"
