Question

Why is the Professor so sure Ned Harviss will help him with his manuscript?

Answer 1

Answer:

The Professor knew that Ned sometimes published science books.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Ned Harviss' welcoming disposition at the arrival of the professor led the latter to believe that his host will indeed assist with his manuscript.

This is based on the short story The Descent of Man by Edith Wharton.

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• identify the key ingredient.
• Once Identified, you can then skim through the excerpt, story, or material for the key element.
• To find the key element, you need to find in the text, the sentence or paragraph that speaks to Ned Harviss helping the professor.

The scientist Professor Linyard goes off to see his longtime friend who he had last see about 20 years ago. Ned Harviss at this time was now a publisher for about that length of time.

The writer Edith Wharton places a lot of suspense on what happens with the manuscript. From the first paragraph, it is easy to see that Professor Linyard goes off on a journey to see his friend hoping that he would be able to leverage their relationship to get his work published.

It was important to him that the work was published because it had taken a lot of hard work to develop the idea [Paragraph 2]

In the first line of paragraph 11, we see that his long-time friend's warm welcome gave him the confidence that the manuscript would be accepted. The narrator of the story also makes mention of Ned's colorful references to the past between himself and his professor friend that the latter presented the manuscript without any hesitation.

So to conclude, Professor Linyard's action was based on his perception of Ned Harviss' very embracing welcome to mean he would readily be of service to him.

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