Which sentence from the excerpt best demonstrates the author's reason for writing?
"Then Pau Amma thought a little and said, 'I have
made my choice. I will take all the gifts."
"Then the Eldest Magician made a Magic with the right
hand, with all five fingers of his right hand, and lo and
behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma grew smaller and
smaller and smaller, till at last there was only a little
green crab swimming in the water alongside the canoe,
crying in a very small voice, 'Give me the scissors!""
"And the girl-dalighter picked him up on the palm of her
little brown hand, and sat him in the bottom of the
canoe and gave him her scissors, and he waved them
in his little arms, and opened them and shut them and
snapped them, and said, I can eat nuts.''
"I can breathe in the dry air, and I can find a safe
Pusat Tasek under every stone.""

The sentence that best demonstrates the author's reason for writing is:

The author's reason for writing is to demonstrate that Pau Amma was somehow rewarded even after he displayed a bad attitude. This is seen in the above excerpt where he exclaimed that he now had many abilities.

In the story, "The Crab that Played with the Sea," we learn of a crab named Pau Amma who was disobedient to the Eldest Magician. Of all the animals made by the Magician, only Pau Amma did not wait to hear his instructions on how to play.

All the animals were instructed to be obedient to Man but only Pau Amma went to the sea to make the tides rise and destroy man's house. The punishment given to the crab was not so severe because in the end, many of his abilities were restored.

In conclusion, option C demonstrates the author's reason for writing.

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"And the girl-daughter picked him up on the palm of her

little brown hand, and sat him in the bottom of the

canoe and gave him her scissors, and he waved them

in his little arms, and opened them and shut them and

snapped them, and said, I can eat nuts.''

Explanation:

The sentence from the excerpt that best demonstrates the author's reason for writing is the sentence where the girl-daughter picked him up, gave him her scissors and said she can eat nuts, breathe the dry air and find a safe Pusat Tasek under every stone.