7. (RL2.A) Read the sentences.
"Fancy! For forty years he had been there in the same place, with his garden outside the window and his class in front of him
just like that. Only the desks and benches had been worn smooth; the walnut trees in the garden were taller, and the hopvine
that he had planted himself twined about the windows to the roof."
Why did the author use flashback in this paragraph?
to show that Mr. Hamel has spent a lot of his time gardening
to show how difficult it is for Hamel to give up his classroom
to show how Mr. Hamel cares little about his classroom, as it is merely a
place
to show how Mr. Hamel cares more about his plants than his students