D Watching a scary film with my friends at the theatre
Answer:
To provide the Wellcomb family's backstory
Explanation:
The passage is just giving a short paragraph of what went on in their life. ( A Back story )
He says this because he is discussing the Fourth of July -- Independence Day.
Douglass says, however, that not everyone is independent. Some Americans, he reasons, are far from independent -- namely slaves. It is ironic that, on a day Americans celebrate freedom, a large portion of the population is anything but free.
The purpose of this passage is to provide instructions on how to make tortillas; therefore it is an instructive type of text. One of the most common types of instructive texts is recipes. Recipes indicate step by step how to make a specific food. In this example, we can see how sequence connectors “next” and “finally” add cohesion to the text and relates the previous step with the other.
