Question

Read the excerpt and answer the question. When I think of the hometown of my youth, all that I seem to remember is dust – the brown, crumbly dust of late summer – arid, sterile, dust that gets into the eyes and makes them water, gets into the throat and between the toes of bare brown feet. Which story element does the excerpt above best develop? setting climax conflict characters

Answer 1

The tone of this passage is gloomy and dreadful. It represents how the narrator remembers her childhood and only remembers the grim and dusty parts. The dust obviously had a huge impact on her life at the time because it is all that she remembers. This represents the tone of the story because it sets the tone as gloomy but full of rememberance for the rest of the story.

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Answer 2

Setting

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The narrator is giving many details about his surroundings from his memory.