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For the purpose of an informative piece (be it an article or essay), you will have a very distinct goal of teaching your audience or readers, by manner of presenting information (demonstrating), how to do something or give them enough information by manner of defining or describing something to where they could do something on their own.
Carson puts two opposite forces, feelings or ideas to each-other. In the essay, these forces are love and fear. The author shows how these feelings work and what kind of effect they have on us. Love is a motivation, a positive feeling or something eradicates hate - in this essay fear. Fear, instead is something negative which wipes away love.
The answer is A. The Russian revolution. The whole book is about it. Each of the animals represents an important person from that time.
Utilitarian must mean useful and practical.
As you can see in the excerpt above, it says that writers such as Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, and their contemporaries, wrote fiction which served a particular purpose, as opposed to other writers who only wanted to entertain the masses. So, their purpose was not to entertain, therefore <em>fun oriented </em>is wrong here.