What is Compelling about stories in which people face a tragic destiny?

statement, sympathy, less predictable.

Explanation:

People watch tragic scenes b/c they feel sympathy for the characters. They understand whatever the person in story is going through must be horrible. Tragedy tells you how to feel about a character by building their story. Also, tragedy makes the stories less predictable and less boring. If there is nothing different to move the story forward and all conflicts end the same way, it would become boring to watch/read.

For example: The fault in our stars is a tragic movie but we love it because of the story and tragedy in it.

what is the purpose of the description in this passage from travels with charley?

to explain how he develops friendships with people

to show his fear of the man

to show that people in the bad lands are dangerous

to show the similarity between the man and the place

answer: from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people

explanation: