Read the excerpt from part 2 of "the most dangerous game,” by richard connell. night found him leg-weary, with hands and face lashed by the branches, on a thickly wooded ridge. he knew it would be insane to blunder on through the dark, even if he had the strength. his need for rest was imperative and he thought, "i have played the fox, now i must play the cat of the fable." a big tree with a thick trunk and outspread branches was near by, and, taking care to leave not the slightest mark, he climbed up into the crotch, and, stretching out on one of the broad limbs, after a fashion, rested. rest brought him new confidence and almost a feeling of security. even so zealous a hunter as general zaroff could not trace him there, he told himself; only the devil himself could follow that complicated trail through the jungle after dark. but perhaps the general was a devil— which details from the excerpt the reader to visualize rainsford’s hiding spot?

Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban.i don’t really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dad’s family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. there were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets.how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage? it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction.it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilar’s cuban grandparents to explain family values.it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba.it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.