Question

Which quotation from the essay helps to create a hopeful tone in "Here is New York"? A.)“It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements.” B.)“. . . a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart. . .” C.)“Irving Berlin’s journey from...the lower East Side...was like going three times around the world.” D.)“They...never see the extravagant plantings of Rockefeller Center—the daffodils and grape hyacinths and birches and the flags trimmed to the wind on a fine morning in spring.”

Answer 1

The answer is B.) “. . . a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart. . .”

Answer 2

The correct answer is B) a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart.  

The quotation from the excerpt that helps to create a hopeful tone in “Heres is New York” is “a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart.  

Here is New York was written by E.B.White in 1947. In his short novel, E.B. White shares the life of New Yorkers and dedicates fine words to the city of New York, as if the author was writing it a letter. The hopeful tone of the line “a boy arriving from the Corn Belt…” expresses the faith and ilusión of people arriving to the city where “everybody can make it”.