Read the following passage from Journal of the Adventures of a Party of
California Gold-seekers by Margaret Frink:
Thursday, April 4. We launched out on the fourteen mile
prairie this morning, and such a time as we had, -storming,
snowing, and sleeting, -and we with no place of shelter.
Before we had gone far, we came to a badlooking, muddy
place, to avoid which we turned off the beaten track upon
the grass, which looked firm and solid....I stood in the
sleet and held four horses for two hours, till I thought my
feet were frozen. My cloak was frozen stiff, and I was
chilled through and through.
Which of the following statements best describes how the author connects
the sequence of events in this passage?
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A. She records details of the date and the number of hours that pass.
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B. She describes the scenery in a way that makes the reader
experience it.
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C. She notes the significant landmarks of the journey from Indiana.
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D. She reintroduces people who appeared earlier in the journal.

Option A. She records details of the date and the number of hours that pass best explains how the author relates the sequence of events in this passage

Margaret Frink

Margaret Frink, who merged the Californian Gold Rush in the mid-nineteenth century, furnishes a glimpse of what life existed like on the journey west through her meticulously kept diary. Americans on the East Coast and in the Midwest existed keenly interested in stories about the Gold Rush.

A sequence of events exists as a set of events that happened along a specific time, in the case of narrative texts these events are not only linked to time but to individuals, places, experiences, and feelings, and because of this, a sequence of occasions can be told in different ways and using different types of details to convey them. In the case of the text shown in the question, the author Margaret Frink aims at telling the events during a trip with her friends while it appears they are looking for gold. For doing this Margaret exists very specific with time as she writes the date "Saturday, June 15" and the hour the events started "eight o'clock", also she describes the miles they drove "twenty-six miles" and where they camped "within three miles of the crossing of the North Platte". This means the author primarily connects the events by date, time, or distance as almost all the events represented are detailed by using these features, which allows the author to manage the events in time and let the reader understand the details related to the events.

Hence, Option A. She records details of the date and the number of hours that pass best explains how the author relates the sequence of events in this passage.

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