Read the excerpt from A Girl Named Zippy. What is the purpose of this excerpt?
There was one main street, Broad Street, which was
actually not so broad, and was the site of the town's only
four-way stop sign. There were three churches: the
North Christian Church and the South Christian Church,
which sat on opposite ends of Broad Street like
sentinels, and the Mooreland Friends Church, which was
kind of in the middle of town, but tucked back on
Jefferson Street at the edge of a meadow. There were ..
. no theaters, no department stores.
O to show how many churches were in town
O to detail where the stop sign was located
O to show the activities the characters enjoyed
O to provide details about the story's setting