Question

Read the passage. Summer Vacation Everyone kept telling me that a summer trip to Hawaii would be the highlight of my summer. It was the worst week of my life. My big sister sobbed the whole way to the airport because she would miss her boyfriend. What an overreaction! The trip was six days long! He’d be there when she got back, but she was convinced she had a ticket to planet loneliness, not Maui. After listening to her cry for six hours, I wanted to send her somewhere else, too. She started to cheer up when she saw the beaches, but that didn’t last long. Our twin little brothers, who often egged each other on to bad decisions, made possibly their worst choice ever: testing how many days they could spend at the beach without wearing any sunscreen. Answer: not even one full day before they were so lobster-red that we had to go to the emergency clinic! After that, the beach was off limits. It was totally ridiculous that I couldn’t go swimming just because they were too silly to wear sunscreen. I wasn’t going to make that mistake. But it didn’t matter. Mom decreed, “No beach for anybody.” So lucky me, I spent my vacation watching Hawaiian TV and eating take-out food, rubbing lotion on my brothers’ blisters and watching my sister sniffle and text her boyfriend. What a vacation! Next time I visit Hawaii, I think I’ll go alone. How does the narrator’s choice of words express her attitude toward this trip?
(A) “Lucky me” and “highlight of my summer” show how much she enjoyed the trip. (B) “Totally ridiculous” and “decreed” suggest that the trip would have been better if their mom wasn’t quite so strict. (C) “A ticket to planet loneliness” explains how much the narrator missed her best friend during the trip. (D) Phrases like “worst week of my life” and “Next time…I’ll go alone” demonstrate how much she disliked the trip.

Answer 1

(D) Phrases like “worst week of my life” and “Next time…I’ll go alone” demonstrate how much she disliked the trip.

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Answer 2

The correct answer is D. Phrases like “worst week of my life” and “Next time…I’ll go alone” demonstrate how much she disliked the trip.

Explanation:

In writing and therefore in narratives, the attitude of the narrator towards the situation or topic he or she is writing about is known as tone. The tone or attitude in texts can mainly be identified by analyzing the use of the language of the author or narrator and the words he or she uses to refer to the main topic or subject. In the excerpt presented the narrator is describing a trip to Hawaii and all the events that took place during this trip.

In general terms the narrator explains the trip was not what he or she expected as the older sister of the narrator missed her boyfriend and because of this she cried a lot during the trip; also the narrator's twin brothers got sunburnt after not using any sunscreen and because of this, the mom decided any member of the family could go to the beach, which meant the narrator had to spend the rest of the vacations indoors. This general idea is emphasized by the words the narrator chooses to describe the situation, especially the phrases "it was the worst week of my life", "it was totally ridiculous" and "Next time I visit Hawaii, I think I'll go alone". Thus, the attitude of the narrator during this trip is shown in the phrases like  "worst week of my life” and “Next time…I’ll go alone" that explains the narrator was not happy with the trip and mainly dislike it.