Question

PART A: Why is Mr. Winter’s and Harriet’s interaction at swim club significant to the story’s plot?

A
Mr. Winter knows Harriet to be mature for her age, so he asks Harriet to take the unusual babysitting job to calm his wife’s concerns.
B
Mr. Winter asks her to babysit even though she has never seen him before, implying that he doesn’t care who babysits Charles and that he is a neglectful father.
C
Harriet suspects that Mr. Winter only approached her to babysit because of her age and because she’s a girl; this awareness is one of the first steps towards her growing up.
D
Mr. Winter asks her to babysit even though she has never seen him before; this unusual approach is a clue that something is off concerning the Winter family.

Answer 1

The correct answer is D

Mr. Winter asks her to babysit even though she has never seen him before; this unusual approach is a clue that something is off concerning the Winter family.

Step-by-step explanation:

• Mr. Winter’s and Harriet’s interaction at swim club significant to the story’s plot was because of when Mr. Winter asks her to babysit even though she has never seen him before; this unusual approach is a clue that something is off concerning the Winter family.
• In this story where Harriet is doing his job of babysitting Charles. Charles is the baby of the winter family.
• The strange thing about the story is when she is at the house, Harriet was asked not to look after the baby at all.
• When Mr. Winters brought Harriet home she knew that the baby was not real.
• Harriet also accepted the job babysitting job at a swim club even whereas she did not know anything about kids, and the parents instructed her not to check on the baby also which was something awkward about the family.

Answer 2

Mr. Winter asks her to babysit even though she has never seen him before; this unusual approach is a clue that something is off concerning the Winter family.

Answer: Option D.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the story, Charles is babysitting the baby of Winter family. But she is confused about the fact that why has she been asked to babysit the baby belonging to this family.

She was confused because she ad just met Mr Winters at some club and he asked her there and then to babysit his baby which led to her confusion about this because they hardly know who she is. This shows that there is something strange.