Question

Based on the passage, what is the thesis statement of the essay?

Camping Out
by Emest Hemingway (extract)
A. The author advises readers to go camping to save money.
B. The author encourages refers to make camping trips once every few months.
The author informs readers about the essentials of a camping trip.
D. The author pokes fun at those who go camping without knowing what is needed to do so.
Thousands of people will go into the bush this summer to cut
the high cost of living. A man who gets his
two weeks' salary while he is on vacation should be able to put
those two weeks in fishing and camping
and be able to save one week's salary dear. He ought to be able
to sleep comfortably every night, to eat
well every day and to return to the city rested and in good
condition
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But if he goes into the woods with a frying pan, an ignorance of
black flies and mosquitoes, and a great
and abiding lack of knowledge about cookery, the chances are
that his return will be very different. He
will come back with enough mosquito bites to make the back of
his neck look like a relief map of the
Caucasus. His digestion will be wrecked after a valiant battle to
assimilate half-cooked or charred grub
And he won't have had a decent night's sleep while he has been

Answer 1

D

Step-by-step explanation:

The author is making fun of the supposed relaxation that campers experience when they leave the comforts of the modern world to supposedly live cheaply and more naturally in the wild.

What they don't take into account, says the author, are the many factors that will make their stay miserable and their life back at home even more difficult.