Excerpt from A Backward Glance at Eighty
Charles A. Murdock
We raised corn and pum...
English, 28.03.2020 20:12 jamalchris4166
Excerpt from A Backward Glance at Eighty
Charles A. Murdock
We raised corn and pumpkins, and hay for the horse and cows. The corn was gathered into the barn across the road, and a husking-bee gave occasion for mild merrymaking. As necessity arose the dried ears were shelled and the kernels taken to the mill, where an honest portion was taken for grist. The corn-meal bin was the source of supply for all demands for breakfast cereal. Hasty-pudding never palled. Small incomes sufficed. Our own bacon, pork, spare-rib, and souse, our own butter, eggs, and vegetables, with occasional poultry, made us little dependent on others. One of the great-uncles was a sportsman, and snared rabbits and pickerel, thus extending our bill of fare. Bread and pies came from the weekly baking, to say nothing of beans and codfish. Berries from the pasture and nuts from the woods were plentiful. For lights we were dependent on tallow candles or whale-oil, and soap was mostly home-made.
4 Life was simple but happy. The small boy had small duties. He must pick up chips, feed the hens, hunt eggs, sprout potatoes, and weed the garden. But he had fun the year round, varying with the seasons, but culminating with the winter, when severity was unheeded in the joy of coasting, skating, and sleighing in the daytime, and apples, chestnuts, and pop-corn in the long evenings.
Which BEST describes a way that the idea of hard work influenced the narrator's idea of fun in the final paragraph?
A) The idea of hard work made the narrator view fun as a necessary diversion from the drudgery of life.
B) The idea of hard work made the narrator view fun as unnecessary and useless, especially in the winter.
C) None of these represent a likely way that the idea of hard work influenced the idea of fun for the narrator.
D) The idea of hard work made the narrator view fun as something to be found in small pleasures after the hard work is done.
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