Which label provides evidence for each of the statements about the passage? It was made of stout birch-bark, and
its full surface tested on the snow.
Dark spruce forest frowned on either
side the frozen waterway.
A vast silence reigned over the land
But there was life, abroad in the land
and defiant
Evidence
from On the Northland Trail In White Fang
by Jack London
Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen
Rerway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of
eir white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean
wards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A
est silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a
esolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that
he spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint
mit of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any
adness--a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the
sphinx a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the
grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and
incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of
life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-
hearted Northland Wild.
But there was life, abroad in the land and defiant Down
the frozen waterway toiled a string of wolfish dogs. Their
bristly fur was rimed with frost. Their breath froze in the air
as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapor that
settied upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals
offrost Leather harness was on the dogs, and leather traces
Statement
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*The winter setting creates
a vivid scene.
*The tundra is isolated and
still.
*Even in the midst of
winter, there is action on
the tundra.
*The environment requires
special equipment.