Analyzing Word Choice and Author's Purpose in Short Stories
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Analyzing the Genre and Purpose
How does Kipling's choice of genre, children's stories,
support his purpose?
Read the passage, then answer the question.
"I am not afraid," said Pau Amma, and he rose to the top
of the sea in the moonlight. There was nobody in the
world so big as Pau Amma-for he was the King Crab of
all Crabs. Not a common Crab, but a King Crab. One side
of his great shell touched the beach at Sarawak; the other
touched the beach at Pahang: and he was taller than the
smoke of three volcanoes! As he rose up through the
branches of the Wonderful Tree he tore off one of the
great twin fruits-the magic double kernelled nuts that
make people young, -and the little girl-daughter sawit
bobbing alongside the canoe, and pulled it in and began
to pick out the soft eyes of it with her little golden
scissors,
It allows Kipling to describe the complexity of
natural elements to children
It t allows Kipling to teach children factual information
about the natural world.
It allows Kipling to teach children to respect and
care for plants and animals
It allows Kipling to entertain children with a magical
description while imparting a message.
"Now," said the Magician, "make a Magic, Pau Amma, to
show that you are really important."
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