Answer:
Audience and message , for the author purpose for writing a text , it is important to identify its targeted audience or the readers and translate the story through messages that derives from Authors thoughts and opinions.
Explanation:
D: It is used to emphasize their great knowledge <span />
The sentence that best paraphrases the first sentence of the excerpt is "You aren't telling me anything I don't know". This is because the narrator uses the metaphor of "rousing me from a deep sleep" as saying that he was aware of the situation that was going on, it wasn't that he didn't know about it.
internal: what to do with lenny, crooks' issues with himself/ the ranch
external: person vs. society, person vs. nature, and society vs. the outcast
