In this passage from "By the Waters of Babylon", by Stephen Vincent Bennet, the narrator responds to the conflict in this passage <em>the narrator takes control of his spirit by using his priesthood. </em>This is the story of a man who is called John and belongs to a tribe called the Hill People. He is the son of a priest and will become a priest himself. In that tribe, only priests are allowed to travel to the Great Places of Gods.
The author engages the reader by presenting a series of interesting facts that make the reader curious about the significance of the Benin Bronzes.
By presenting interesting facts, the author will keep the audience's analytical process engaged in searching and connecting several pieces of information so the audience will pay attention to the topic that presented by the authors
Answer: It features a reference to a supernatural being.
In this excerpt, we encounter a myth from the Maasai. This myth states that there is a supernatural being called Enkai, who is a sky god. Enkai has no gender. It can act kindly by giving the people rain, or cruelly by making the earth dry up. The presence of a supernatural being who can control the destiny of humans makes this a good example of a myth.
Answer:
It provides background on how a family from Russia got into the sugar business.
Explanation:
The book <em>Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science </em>tells about the development of the sugar business, starting from its origins in New Guinea in 7000 B.C. to the 21st century and production of ethanol. An important topic in the book is a blood trail this industry left - the deaths of countless African slaves forced into sugar production.
This particular excerpt tells a story about how an ancestor of one Russian family entered the sugar business as a serf, a farmer bound to his lord's land, which he works on.
