While working on Winning Ways, my social history of American women in sports, I came across an item about Jane Yatman and Jane Lindsay, who took turns holding long-distance cycling records over and over again in 1899. I also read the reflections of Frances Willard, president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, on how and why she learned to ride a bicycle at age 53. Both suggested there was a story to be told about women and bicycles at the turn of the century. It proved to be a colorful story indeed. —Introduction to Wheels of Change, Sue Macy Based on the central idea of this passage, what is the purpose of including it in the introduction? to entertain readers with stories about women and bicycles to discuss the topics readers will encounter in the book to give readers background about why the author took an interest in the story to inform readers of the author’s feelings toward women and cycling

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”