David is writing a short story about a boy who witnesses the
crash landing of a strange flying object. read this
paragraph from the story
there was something there, all right, buried beneath the
sand dunes tyler couldn't see it, but he knew it was there,
just the same. an odd smell, like hot metal, hung in the air,
and every clump of grass dotting the dunes was burned to a
crisp. and wasnt there a sound? tyler held his breath and
istened. yes, a faint, disturbing humming, as if the dunes
now concealed a vast and dangerous machine.
what purpose within the narrative structure does this
maranh sene?

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explanation:

answer: age of the protagonists.

dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by james joyce, published in 1914. they tell the stories of the irish middle class in and around dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

joyce divides the collection into three sections dealing with childhood, adolescence and maturity. therefore, one pattern he uses to organize his stories is the age of the protagonists. the initial stories deal with children, and as the stories continue, they focus on progressively older people.

the correct answer is a. he fairs had detailed, specific rules about what merchants could sell and how they could sell it. despite the fact that all the other answers have relevant details, they make inferences based on the passage that lacks all relevant information to support them. only the answer a makes no inferences, and can be supported by this part of the passage: "the fairs were very well organized. they featured covered galleries so that merchants could buy and sell even if rain came drumming down; cellars were so large, they resembled underground cities. at the fairs, merchants could trust the weights and measures, and a strict order prevailed for how things were to be sold."