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Read the excerpt from Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier by Frances Fuller Victor below and think about what part of it Victor may have embellished to make her story flow.
When young Joe was about eighteen years of age, he grew tired of the monotony of plantation life, and jumping into the wagon of a neighbor who was headed to Kentucky, started out in life for himself. He "reckoned they did not grieve for him at home,” which anyone hearing about his attitude toward schooling and farming would also conclude. Joe probably believed that should his father grieve for him, his step-mother would be able to console him; this step-mother, though a pious woman, was not one of the lad's favorites.
What did Victor likely add to Meek's story in this paragraph?
the part about him leaving home
the part about not liking his step-mother
the part about him heading to Kentucky
the part about his father grieving for him
