What is the author's purpose in writing this passage? as i drove through the sonoran desert, i was struck by how beautiful everything was. i was speeding down the highway, looking west across the desert, as the sun snuck up behind me. there was just enough light to give a reddish-orange glow to the valley walls. the saguaro cacti cast shadows across the brush dotting the desert floor, and i watched as the saguaros lifted their arms to the sky. all of a sudden, heavy rain began to fall, and when it ended 20 minutes later, the saguaros were left to greedily drink up what little water they could get. the sun rose higher in the sky, and waves of heat began rising off the desert floor. those waves reminded me that the beauty i saw was the result of an unbelievably harsh climate. it's easy to forget how cruel nature can be when you're inside a climate-controlled vehicle. a. to tell the reader how to live in a desert b. to describe to the reader a scenic drive c. to inform the reader about saguaro cacti d. to persuade the reader to visit a desert

Which two parts of this excerpt from mary shelley’s frankenstein reveals information about the setting? (it was on a dreary night of november that i beheld the accomplishment of my toils.) with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, (i collected the instruments of life around me, that i might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. it was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out) when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. (how can i describe my emotions at this catastrophe), or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i had endeavored to form? his limbs were in proportion, and i had selected his features as beautiful. beautiful! great god! (his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; ) but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.