“Dad tried to kill me with an alligator” What compels the narrator to take his daughters to the "secret island"?

Explain the effect of the rhetorical questins for the below paragraph."i pinched myself: was i still alive? was i awake? how was it possible that men, women, and children were beiing burned and that the world kept silent? no. all this could not be real. a nightmare soon i would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that i waas back in the room of my childhood, with my "

Lens quotation: "character is what you are in the dark." -dwight lyman moody

Compare how this myth is portrayed in the painting and in the text. is the mood similar or different? how do the painter and the author create these moods