This question has two parts. First, answer part A. Then, answer part B. 0 DF BE Part A Which of these inferences about the author's purpose is supported by the text? A. The author wrote the text in order to motivate people to get out into nature and learn more about animals. B. The author wrote the text in order to motivate people to stop fearing amphibians and reptiles and instead help them survive. C. The author wrote the text in order to shame people about their ignorance of the difference between amphibians and reptiles. D. The author wrote the text in order to encourage more humans to take amphibians and reptiles into their homes to care for them as pets.

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Why is emerson’s essay “self-reliance” a great example of transcendentalism?

9. types of literature that are told from a point of view include autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, and journals.