Question

PLEASE HELP ME Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of Animal Farm.

By the autumn the animals were tired but happy. They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything. It was almost half built now.

How does the pacing of this passage affect the reader’s interpretation of the text?

A flashback to earlier events provides a pause in the pacing to slow events down.
Foreshadowing of events provides information as to what will happen to the windmill.
The pace of the text quickens to convey the characters’ resolve to finish the windmill.
The pace of the text quickens to move the story to its climax, the completion of the windmill.

Answer 1

The correct answer is D. I just took the test.

Answer 2

The pacing of this passage affects the reader's interpretation of the text by conveying the characters resolve to finish the windmill.

By reading the excerpt, the reader understands that the animals are not worried about not having too much stores of food because they are willing to compensate this need with the build of the windmill.

The excerpt shows that they are calm because they know how to solve the lack of food, and this calmness is transmitted particularly by this sentence: "the stores of food were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything. It was almost half built now".