Answer:
to inform readers about the ways young people are changing the world.
to entertain readers with a story about high schoolers who made a change.
Explanation:
The the ditch could stop others from invading the town
Even though the story revolves around the premise of the aunts' mercy killings, the central conflict is with Jonathan. Without Jonathan's arrival as the primary antagonist, there would be few to no real obstacles between Mortimer and his goal of protecting his aunts and committing Teddy.
The two sentences from the story's introduction that best support the answer to part A in "Once Upon a Time" are:
D. "I have no burglar bars, no gun under the pillow, but I have the same fears as people who do take these precautions." (Paragraph 5)
F. "I couldn't find a position in which my mind would let go of my body - release me to sleep again. So I began to tell myself a story, a bedtime story." (Paragraph 8)
- "Once Upon a Time" is a short story by Nadine Gordimer in which she contrasts the innocence of children's books and bedtime stories with the tragedy that results from fear.
- The narrator - most likely Gordimer herself - cannot go back to sleep after waking up to strange noise in her house.
- The bedtime story she tells herself to go back to sleep, however, is far from innocent and uplifting.
- It is about the awful reality of Apartheid; about how people, desperate for security amidst the riots and thefts, locked themselves behind bars in their own homes.
- The bedtime story the narrator tells herself is one of fear and violence caused by injustice and prejudice.
- With that in mind, we can choose options D and F as the best answers. They mention the precautions of those people who crave security and the comfort of a bedtime story.
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