Excerpt from the count of monte cristo by alexander dumas beyond a bare, weather-worn wall, about a hundred paces from the spot where the two friends sat looking and listening as they drank their wine, was the village of the catalans. long ago this mysterious colony quitted spain, and settled on the tongue of land on which it is to this day. whence it came no one knew, and it spoke an unknown tongue. one of its chiefs, who understood provençal, begged the commune of marseilles to give them this bare and barren promontory, where, like the sailors of old, they had run their boats ashore. the request was granted; and three months afterwards, around the twelve or fifteen small vessels which had brought these gypsies of the sea, a small village sprang up. this village, constructed in a singular and picturesque manner, half moorish, half spanish, still remains, and is inhabited by descendants of the first comers, who speak the language of their fathers. for three or four centuries they have remained upon this small promontory, on which they had settled like a flight of seabirds, without mixing with the marseillaise population, intermarrying, and preserving their original customs and the costume of their mother-country as they have preserved its language. how does the first paragraph of this excerpt evoke a sense of time in the narrative? a.)it describes how the original colonists left their homeland and crossed the sea to their new community. b.)it tells the history of the community, using frequent, appropriate transitions. c.)it describes physical objects such as the wall, the boats, the promontory, and the village houses. d.)it uses vivid sensory language to thrust the reader mentally into the scene.

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the answer your looking for is B) It tells the history of the community, using frequent, appropriate transitions.

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

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credit to mohana ram murugiah.

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teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

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