“HELP HIM UP!”: A WITNESS’S ACCOUNT OF PANIC ON A SUBWAY PLATFORM

PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

A
“It was Saturday afternoon, April 29. Everyone who came down the stairs to the train platform saw him, myself included, and everyone did the same thing. Watched him.” ( Paragraph 3)
B
“It is a very specific New York City preoccupation and plotline, a horror and a drama that grips the imagination and lays down a gut check.” ( Paragraph 8)
C
“He texted his girlfriend, ‘Guy fell so I had to jump on the tracks now I have a cut on my hand.’ He called his mother. Both were upset with him at first, ‘mad I jumped on the tracks in the first place,’ he said, but more thankful he was O. K.” ( Paragraph 32)
D
“Mr. Capuzzo said that before he jumped, he remembered an old public service announcement: ‘Twenty people are thinking someone else called about the gas leak.’” ( Paragraph 34)

What is the main idea of this paragraph

3. what is the purpose of a lead sentence or paragraph? to display your most convincing reasons and arguments to you revise the overall structure of your work to interest readers and introduce your writing style to add details and elaborate on your ideas

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.