Texas EOC English 2: 3.3 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres

a coach and horses more dead than alive It's dark

All right yep Bristol by things parlor Can i take

your hand and i prefer to keep them up all

right we'll read the following description from paragraph one Rat

chair Snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest

and added a white crest to the burden he carried

heavy Well the author uses the white crest and the

burden he carried into description about teo Do what And

here the potential answer Okay well if the answer doesn't

jump right out at us it's best to take another

look at the passage is one might trick us that

we don't have a solid memory of what went down

in the first paragraph Yeah well for example choice a

claims that h g wells wants us to feel How

heavy the strangers luggage is huh When we see the

word burden well we might be fooled but the first

sense of the paragraph tells us that the strangers on

li carrying a little black portmanteau well if you didn't

know a portmanteau is kind of suitcase And since this

one's a little guy we know the stranger doesn't have

too much luggage Yes the stranger believes in traveling light

It is perfect All right Options He's Probably right on

some level There's no doubt the stranger is glad to

be in out of the blizzard and eaten some of

mrs hall's famous Now whatever she's famous for over this

is not the reason that wells mentions the strangers burdens

and snowy shoulders H g is up to something cooler

here B isn't a totally ridiculous answer The white crest

of snow does show how miserable the strangers walk from

the train station wass Unless the white crest is dan

drift but get the streams with benefit of the doubt

their thank you head and shoulders Ultimately option d is

the best answer The sentence from the passage reads The

snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest and

added a white crest to the burden he carried Got

it Wells doesn't tell us what the mysterious burden is

so we're basically left toe wonder about this guy's secret

issues even though the title of the novel just kind

of gives away at least one major problem This guy 00:02:32.175 --> [endTime] has right