Question

"We had a doctor on the ridge in them days. As good as any doctor alivin'. He'd cut a crooked toenail or deliver a woman. Dead these last years."


How do the details in this excerpt help to develop the central idea?




A) They give insight into the doctor’s motivation for helping people.



B) They depict the poverty and lifelessness of the town.



C) They explain why people wanted to get away from the town.



D) They reveal some of the meaningful human history of the unnamed town.

Answer 1

Answer:

B) They depict the poverty and lifelessness of the town.

Explanation:

William Least Heat-Moon's autobiographical travel book titled "Blue Highways" was published in 1982. In it, he details how the various small settling places along the roads connecting rural America are. He traveled from town to town, small places that more seem forgotten than existing. in one such town, he met the people and they talked of how life had previously been for them. in one of his conversation with the Wattses, he learned how the local doctor had to do everything from delivering babies to cutting curved toenails. This particular detail shows how impoverished the town may have been, strife with poverty and no life of its own.