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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by one fish, two fish, red

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fish, astute fish well this Dr. Seuss knockoff is the [Man reading a book to two little girls]

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worst alright so take a gander at the following paragraph [mumbling]

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[mumbling]

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....all right now the question select a statement that

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best explains why the author chose to include this paragraph and here your

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potential answers maybe he got paid by the word...

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So let's think about what Kipling was trying to do in that paragraph decide [Bpy falling asleep on a desk]

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tell a great bedtime story while the author does name a whole bunch of

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different fish when he describes the whales ocean sized buffet this isn't [Whale swimming in the ocean]

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really mentioned in the rest of the story so A is not our answer how about

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C? Kipling doesn't talk about protecting the ocean anywhere in this [Kipling typing on a typewriter]

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paragraph and just so stories was published back in 1902

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we're doubting that environmental protection was on his mind way back then [Woman pushes man into a room]

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so C is incorrect as for D well the paragraph might start all rhymey but it

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drops off pretty quickly and doesn't really come back much in the rest of the

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text so answer D is wrong wrong wrong.. That leaves us with B Kipling makes a [Boy with his hands on his head in frustration]

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point of talking about all of the things that his whale will eat and the whale

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even says i'm hungry in the text we get the feeling that this whale is

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hungrier than a hobbit at second breakfast so B is the correct answer and [hobbit stood outside a house]

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speaking of second breakfast we're pretty hungry we skipped our fourth breakfast

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this morning three just wasn't cutting it. [girl asking for one more pancake]

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