Paragraph 5 states that Hala seeds “ can float in the sea for months or even years.”. Explain how this detail supports the central idea of the article. Cite at least one detail from the text to support your response

Paragraph 5 of the text supports the central idea–that colonization of life in Hawaii had to travel great distance– by claiming that Hala seed is able to float for months or even years, which suggests that colonization in Hawaii by species took a long time.

Explanation:

from 'Against All Odds: Earth's Fragile Pioneers' is an article written by Stephen James O'Meara. The article is about how life colonized itself in the isolated Hawaiian island. The author conveys that it take many years for life to colonize itself in such harsh and isolated place as Hawaiian Island.

In Paragraph 5, the author states that Hala seeds is one of the surviving seed to colonize itself in Hawaii. This example best supports the main idea of the text as Hala seed can survive in salty sea for months or even years. This fact suggests that life took many years to colonize itself in Hawaii.

Textual evidence:

'Few seafaring seeds have what it takes to survive the long, meandering journey to  Hawaii...'

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answer: "the beating heart symbolizes the narrator's conscience, or his sense of guilt and wrongdoing" so its b

explanation:

"to look at him, or hear him describe it, he had no guilt. however, poe decided to symbolize this man's subconscious guilt through the heartbeat."