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Which sentence from the excerpt best demonstrates the author’s reason for writing, "the crab that played with the sea?"


Here's the paragraph,

Then Pau Amma thought a little and said, ‘I have made my choice. I will take all the gifts.’

Then the Eldest Magician made a Magic with the right hand, with all five fingers of his right hand, and lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma grew smaller and smaller and smaller, till at last there was only a little green crab swimming in the water alongside the canoe, crying in a very small voice, ‘Give me the scissors!’

And the girl-daughter picked him up on the palm of her little brown hand, and sat him in the bottom of the canoe and gave him her scissors, and he waved them in his little arms, and opened them and shut them and snapped them, and said, ‘I can eat nuts. I can crack shells. I can dig holes. I can climb trees. I can breathe in the dry air, and I can find a safe Pusat Tasek under every stone. I did not know I was so important. Kun?’ (Is this right?)


Sagot :

The sentence that best describes the author's purpose for writing is

  • ‘I can eat nuts. I can crack shells. I can dig holes. I can climb trees. I can breathe in the dry air, and I can find a safe Pusat Tasek under every stone.

The author wrote this story to explain the capabilities of the crab represented in this story as Pau Amma. He could do a lot of things as seen at the end of the excerpt.

This was despite the fact that Pau Amma was disobedient to the creator who assigned the animals their roles. He also caused a lot of mischief by causing an overflow of water from the sea. In the end, he did not lose much as he still had a lot of abilities.

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