The excerpt that shows the low self-esteem of the
soldiers and their belief that being a soldier has nothing to do with bravery
from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country," is the sentence “ The
three with the medals were like hunting-hawks; and I was not a hawk, although I
might seem a hawk to those who had never hunted; they, the three, knew better
and so we drifted apart.”
Answer:
A) To inform
Explanation:
The author's purpose in writing this passage is "to inform".
(Please note that there is no "to describe" in the attachment you gave).
From the excerpt, we can clearly see that the author was actually informing. The author was giving us information with facts about his master, his plantation and the author's experience in his master's plantation.
“The use of animal fat violated Hindu and Muslim beliefs and cause the native soldiers to revolt. This revolt led to one of the largest massacres of British men and women ever recorded.”-
“An attempt was made to evict these Mahajarins, whereupon the military police were attacked by a crowd of some forty Maharanis and the British officer who intervened was seriously wounded with a spade.”-
“A detachment of Indian troops at Kacha Garhi thereupon fired two or three shots at the Mahajarin for making murderous assault on the British officer. One Mahajarin was killed and one wounded and three arrested.
<span>C. With my one engine heart and part of my skateboard moving fast as a car
I think it is this one because it is the only one that addresses "the sidewalk racer" which I would interpret as a skateboard.
Hope that helps.</span>
