Question

Read the following excerpt from the article "Vision, Voice and the Power of Creation: An Author Speaks Out," by T. A. Barron, and answer the question that follows:

Another way to tap the power of imagination is through place. My own background as a writer is rooted in nature, having grown up reading Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, and John Muir long before I ever dipped into Madeleine L'Engle, Lloyd Alexander, Ursula Le Guin, E. B. White, or J.R.R. Tolkien. My early writings were really nature journals; at nine, I wrote a complete biography—of a tree. (It was a once-majestic chestnut tree not far from my home.) So it should come as no surprise that I view place as much more than just a setting for a story. It is, in truth, another form of character, no less alive and complex, mysterious and contradictory, than the richest character in human form.

What does the author imply when he writes, "Another way to tap the power of imagination is through place"?

The power of imagination is only found in place.
There are many ways to tap the power of imagination.
There are other ways to use place.
The best way to tap the power of imagination is through place.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The correct answer is: There are other ways to use place.

Indeed, the author begins his phrase by stating that “another” way to tap the imagination is place. This implies that just as there are other ways to tap imagination; there are other ways to use place. Not all authors consider place as something as important as “the richest character in human form”. There are several who focus more on characters or even on different forms of narration. For many authors place is just a setting that may convey some meaning or not. Nevertheless, many of the best novels pay special attention to place as it can be used profusely to mirror the protagonist’s state of mind or to further emphasize it by contrast.

A notion associated with place is the pathetic fallacy, for example: a character who has just lost his beloved wife and who walks aimlessly in a dark forest during a lightning storm and who feels that nature is mourning the death of this wife with him.