Why does the author include information about trade in this
text?
to convince readers to visit the region to buy products
to illustrate the wealth and commercial success of the
region
to describe why he wants to live in the region
to encourage readers to move to the region

Excerpt:

Many marketable commodities are produced here. And many ships come here laden with cloth of gold and various silken fabrics, and much else besides that I will not attempt to specify, and exchange them for local products. They arrive and depart with full cargoes and the merchants make a handsome profit on the transaction.

To illustrate the wealth and commercial success of the

region

Explanation:

This is an excerpt from chapter 8 of ''The Travels of Marco Polo'' and it is illustrating one of his adventures or travels. In this excerpt we can see how good commercial success was back then and he is describing all of it when he is talking about gold, various silken fabrics, many ships.

We must consider the time when he was traveling because it wasn't able for everyone to travel and he was doing it all the time so he was informed by everything in other locations. That is also the reason why this excerpt is illustrating the wealth too.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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