What is the purpose of this passage from the myth? Abc
to explain how the first humans came to exist on
Earth
Ea called on Marduk, a great warrior god, saying that if
Marduk should be victorious, he would be the lord of all
the gods. A great battle ensued, with gods raging against
each other. Marduk reached Tiamat, the embodiment of
chaos, and smashed her head with his great club. He
sliced her in half, making the North Wind bear her pieces
away. From each half of her ribs he created the vault of
the heavens and the earth. Her weeping eyes became
sacred rivers, and Tiamat was no more.
-"Enuma Elish,"
Early Babylonian myth
to explain how the heavens, earth, and rivers were
created
to explain how humans should act toward one
anther

Hyperbole in the book messenger by lois lowry

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.

Which words in the sentence are the direct objects? they kindly carried the bags to my grandmother's room