Read the paragraph from Nick’s personal narrative.Standing alone in my family’s barn, I thought about how much hard work and time my parents had invested—how much hard work and time we had all invested—in maintaining a fully operational farm. I did not remember a time when my clothes had not reeked of manure or my hair had not held fast to brittle pieces of straw. What would happen if my parents had to sell the farm so we could move closer to my grandparents? Just as I was attempting to imagine
Answer
N
Nick will need to go back and explain why his parents have worked so hard to keep the farm.
N
Nick will need to provide other exciting details in order to maintain the reader’s attention.
N
Nick will need to provide a more detailed conclusion to make up for the events he did not include.
N
Nick will need to go back and relate the events that led up to that moment in the story.
Explanation
The paragraph begins with Nick standing alone in the barn and thinking about the possibility of losing the farm, but it does not explain what events brought him to that moment. To help readers understand the situation, Nick should go back and relate the events that led up to it. That makes choice D the best answer; adding unrelated exciting details would not fill in the missing context.
AI-written and checked against the verified answer.