Consider the way the narrator contrasts ideas about and images of bats in the sections “Vampire Films”, “The Bat as Deadly Weapon”, and “Beaty”. Explain how comparison and contrasts help to highlight an essential contradiction between people’s perceptions of bats and bats in reality.

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this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,

he does not belive what the men tell him about the jungle

answer: false i agree with milkshakegrande101.