Question

How does paragraph 3 fit into the structure of "Excerpt from A Legend of the Wooden Shoes"?

Use two details from the story to support your response.

Answer 1

Paragraph 3 fits into the structure by introducing the main character, the carpenter, and showing how the problem of the disappearing trees in Holland affects him. The carpenter “bitterly mourned the loss of his beloved forests,” and the oaks in particular because he “loved the oaks most of all.” The carpenter’s love of oak trees was so deep that he “gave his family the name van Eyck,” which is the Dutch word for “oak.” The carpenter, his love of the forests, and his lament of them disappearing, all first introduced in paragraph 3, sets up the problem that is developed throughout the rest of the story.