Story is, “Help him up. How does this paragraph contribute to the text? “Time slowed. A woman screamed. I pulled my messenger bag off my shoulder and let it drop. I
was aware, behind me, of another woman shouting into the call box. There were a dozen or
more people nearby. I distinctly remember a man yelling. "For God's sake, stay away from that
third rail!"
It shows how the author took heroic action to save the man on the tracks.
It explains how the man fell onto the subway tracks.
It describes how the people in the subway station did not do enough to help.
It creates tension and suspense by describing what happened before the man was rescued