Resources:
Parents of Rescued Teenage Sailor Abby Sunderland Accused of Risking Her
Life, Online News, Article by Paul Harris
Ship of Fools, Editorial by Joanna Weiss
Was Abby Too Young to Sail? TV News Interview by CBS News
What idea about Abby's trip is emphasized in the editorial but not in the other two reports? How does this emphasis change your view of Abby's story?
Answer:
What the editorial addresses but the other two reports fail to inform is the possibility of this event being a publicity stunt to acquire fame.
Explanation:
Abby Sunderland is a sixteen-year-old American who had to be rescued during her attempt to sail solo around the world.
Weiss claims that Abby Sunderland writing a book, and her father working on a reality show, about her experience shows that their goal is to make money and gain fame.
Explanation:
B. the narratpr controls what information ypur reader recieves about events in the story and what the characters are thinking
Answer:
A secondary source of information is one that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions that you're researching.
Explanation:
The answer is: through colorful description.
In the excerpt, instead of directly stating what was seen, the author chooses to describe it in a colorful manner so as to instigate the readers imagination. It's as if the reader is able to keep up with every thought the speaker had, the way the speaker's own brain interpreted what was seen. To make the image more vivid, the author narrates the action step by step, with aesthetic descriptions: billowy, coiled and wriggled for the movement; greyish and luminous for the color; disks like eyes, thickness of a snake for the image.
I would say change whose to who's
