Explanation:
Read the excerpt from Night below and answer the question.
“Hey, kid, how old are you?”
The man interrogating me was an inmate. I could not see his face, but his voice was weary and warm.
“Fifteen.”
“No. You’re eighteen.”
“But I’m not,” I said. “I’m fifteen.”
“Fool. Listen to what I say.”
Then he asked my father, who answered:
“I’m fifty.”
“No.” The man now sounded angry. “Not fifty. You’re forty. Do you hear? Eighteen and forty.”
Why does the prisoner insist that Wiesel and his father lie about their ages?
He wants to win the favor of the Nazi guards.
He is probably deranged because of the conditions in the concentration camp.
He is trying to save their lives.
He considers them a threat and is trying to get rid of them.
It’s an incomplete sentence.
One of the main reasons why an author would use an excerpt from a text is:
- To support their personal opinions and claims.
<h3>What is an Excerpt?</h3>
This refers to the use of segments from a text to give additional information or to show some important information from the text. This is in effect a quoted portion from a text.
Please note that your question is incomplete so I gave you a general overview to help you get a better understanding of the concept.
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