Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. it is unbelievable how fast people adapt. it hurts to admit it, but within hours of first breathing the cattle car’s nauseating air, we began to feel at home. ‘home’ was the edge of the wooden plank i sat on as i dreamed of the jewish exiles of antiquity and the middle ages. more curious than afraid, i thought of myself as their brother. mixed into my sadness there was undeniable excitement, for we were living a historic event, a historic adventure. which best describes the author at this point in his life? a. he comprehends the situation but is trying to remain optimistic. b. he reveals the torment he feels while riding the train to the unknown. c. he is too young and naive to truly understand what is happening. d. he is troubled by how quickly the others have accepted the current condition.

The option that best describes the author at this point in his life is:

c. He is too young and naive to truly understand what is happening.

Explanation:

Wiesel was only 15 years old when he and his family were taken during the Holocaust. In this particular excerpt of "All Rivers Run to the Sea", he recounts how naive he was back then, to the point of feeling "undeniable excitement". He sees the situation through the eyes of innocence, understanding only that they are living a historical moment. However, the fact the he is excited about what is to come shows he is still incapable of comprehending how cruel their situation truly is. Unlike others, he could not predict the horrors about to take place. He was "more curious than afraid".

the support that the author, uses in the article facing our fears is a): a definition of the part of the brain called the amygdala.

he takes neuroscientist joseph ledoux's words by telling that by falling to distinguish between evolutionary old systems located in the amygdala and newer systems, centered in the prefrontal cortex, doctors have conflated non conscious threat circuits in the brain with circuits that underlie the conscious experience of fear. that, the author says, "leads ledoux to the jarring conclusion that the amygdala, a decades-old centerpiece of the brain's fear circuit, does not underlie the conscious feeling of fear".

despite this, the author points out in the article that that is a controversial notion and that evidence, in animal and humans, supports the idea that core emotions can exist outside of conscious awareness.

an argumentative essay presents objectively a topic and its main characteristics. besides, it states all this information and facts by giving authentic and substantiated proof to the audience. by contrast, a persuasive text purpose is to convince the audience about some facts by presenting them according to his/her emotions and feelings. the main purpose of a persuasive text is to convince the audience to agree with the author´s opinion. on the other hand, in the argumentative essay, the author leads the writer to recognize his/her point of view as the correct one.