Read the sentence from a girl named zippy. i felt that there was so much more to the town than its trappings. why does the author use the word “trappings” to describe places in mooreland? to describe the exciting activities there to show that people could not leave the town to express that she loved growing up there to explain that there weren’t a lot of choices there

A "Girl Named Zippy" is a memoir written by Haven Kimmel. This memoir describes the childhood times of the author who grew up in the 1960s in the small town of Mooreland, Indiana. One interesting fact is that the title of the memoir is taken from the author's nickname "Zippy" which her father gave her to describe her zipping around the house when she was a kid.

The author uses the word "Trappings" to describe places in his home town Mooreland with the intention of:

explaining that there weren’t a lot of choices there.

Actually the town in the story is several times referred as "slow" and "Familiar" suggesting that it is not too exciting.

So the final answer to this question is:

to explain that there weren’t a lot of choices there

can you finish the question hun

the positive connotations of the words "pretty," "quiet," and "silence" give the excerpt a tone of nervousness. i think its this