B,makes more sense especially if you asked a question in the first paragraph!
Answer:
D. The phrase “can’t help but wonder” creates a thought-provoking tone.
E. The descriptive details about a “chain of purple, white, and gold banners” allows readers to visualize the item in context.
Explanation:
Took me three tries on edge to get this question right and finally did
According to London, the quintessential force that has driven man to survive and wander, or drift, is food. He states that man has drifted since prehistoric times in search of food:
The history of civilisation is a history of wandering, sword in hand, in search of food… It has always been so, from the time of the first pre-human anthropoid crossing a mountain-divide in quest of better berry-bushes beyond, down to the latest Slovak, arriving on our shores to-day, to go to work in the coal-mines of Pennsylvania. These migratory movements of peoples have been called drifts, and the word is apposite. Unplanned, blind, automatic, spurred on by the pain of hunger, man has literally drifted his way around the planet.”
He states that it is hunger, not romance or adventure, that fuels man’s need to drift.
