HELP ME OUT PLEASE What is the AUTHOR'S PURPOSE in writing this passage?

A) To inform the reader about some important facts and details about the sun

B) To entertain the reader with exciting new information about the sun

C) To persuade the reader to learn more about the sun

D) To inform the reader about how the sun's gravity would affect people

Hillenbrand writes, "as louie blazed through college, far away, history was turning" (p. 43). why does the author interrupt louie's narrative with information about japan and germany?

Read the excerpt from flannery o'connor's "the life you save may be your own although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter and she had never seen mr. shiftlet before, she could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of. his left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly. which phrase connects these characters to the southern gothic genre? half an arm she had never seen his left coat sleeve folded up

The true confessions of charlotte doyle and "jonah and the whale" have which theme in common?