Question

How does giving a list of what the store used to sell help readers to see that the town and its people have meaning?

"Or horehound candy," Miss Ginny said. "Or corsets and salves. We had cough syrups and all that for the body. In season, we'd buy and sell blackberries and walnuts and chestnuts, before the blight got them. And outside, Thurmond milled corn and sharpened plows. Even shoed a horse sometimes."


Question 10 options:


A. It demonstrates that both the store and the town are old-fashioned.



B. It gives an inventory of the store and what was important to the people.



C. It reveals the history of the store and its importance in the nameless town.

Answer 1

The correct answer is the option letter C (It reveals the history of the store and its importance in the nameless town.). Taken from the autobiographical travel book “Blue Highways” by William Least Heat-Moon (1982), the excerpt presented above narrates the moment when Heat-Moon visited a town called “Nameless” in Tennessee. In his book, Heat-Moon narrates his trips from small town to small town and stops at towns which have interesting names. In this case, Heat-Moon starts asking questions about the store such as its history and who built it. Eventually, people start to comment on the things that clients used to take from there. The list of what the store used to sell help readers to see that the town and its people have meaning, since the list reveals the history behind that store and particular details that contributed to the importance of the town “Nameless”.