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03.03.2021 •
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Excerpt from Chapter XII in The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s best-selling travel book documented his travels across Europe aboard the USS Quaker City in 1867. Chapter 12 records his 500-mile train ride through France.
We are not infatuated with these French railway cars, though. We took first-class passage, not because we wished to attract attention by doing a thing which is uncommon in Europe but because we could make our journey quicker by so doing. It is hard to make railroading pleasant in any country. It is too tedious. Stagecoaching is infinitely more delightful. Once I crossed the plains and deserts and mountains of the West in a stagecoach, from the Missouri line to California, and since then all my pleasure trips must be measured to that rare holiday frolic. Two thousand miles of ceaseless rush and rattle and clatter, by night and by day, and never a weary moment, never a lapse of interest! The first seven hundred miles a level continent, its grassy carpet greener and softer and smoother than any sea and figured with designs fitted to its magnitude—the shadows of the clouds. Here were no scenes but summer scenes, and no disposition inspired by them but to lie at full length on the mail sacks in the grateful breeze and dreamily smoke the pipe of peace—what other, where all was repose and contentment? In cool mornings, before the sun was fairly up, it was worth a lifetime of city toiling and moiling to perch in the foretop with the driver and see the six mustangs scamper under the sharp snapping of the whip that never touched them; to scan the blue distances of a world that knew no lords but us; to cleave the wind with uncovered head and feel the sluggish pulses rousing to the spirit of a speed that pretended to the resistless rush of a typhoon! Then thirteen hundred miles of desert solitudes; of limitless panoramas of bewildering perspective; of mimic cities, of pinnacled cathedrals, of massive fortresses, counterfeited in the eternal rocks and splendid with the crimson and gold of the setting sun; of dizzy altitudes among fog-wreathed peaks and never-melting snows, where thunders and lightnings and tempests warred magnificently at our feet and the storm clouds above swung their shredded banners in our very faces!
But I forgot. I am in elegant France now, and not scurrying through the great South Pass and the Wind River Mountains, among antelopes and buffaloes and painted Indians on the war path. It is not meet that I should make too disparaging comparisons between humdrum travel on a railway and that royal summer flight across a continent in a stagecoach.…
What is the author's purpose for writing this passage?
Question 3 options:
to describe the harshness of the American landscape
to persuade French people to visit America
to compare train travel in France to stagecoach travel in America
to educate readers about the culture and geography of France
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D : to educate readers about the culture and geography of France
Explanation: I just took the test
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The story in question is The Guilty Party which, at the very end, switches point of view.
The point of view we see from then is perhaps the soul of someone who died and who is waiting, watching as they bring Liz's soul.
The reason for this is to paint the confusion, dream-like state and to underline the point of Liz dying, as well as to explain closely how is the case looked 'on the other side'.
Switching to the first person, the author tried to convey a sense of the other side better to the reader; the confusion, dream-like state, weirdness of it. This way we can see even closely the guild her father had over her upbringing if it has transferred to the other side and the world of the deceased, as well as Liz's vindication from the close point of view of someone who is personally witnessing it.