Read the excerpt from "The Crab That Played with the Sea."
Which sentence from the excerpt best demonstrates
the author's reason for writing?
And
Then Pau Amma thought a little and said, 'I have
made my choice. I will take all the gifts.'
Then the Eldest Magician made a Magic with the right
hand, with all five fingers of his right hand, and lo and
behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma grew smaller and
smaller and smaller, till at last there was only a little
green crab swimming in the water alongside the
canoe, crying in a very small voice, 'Give me the
scissors!
And the girl-daughter picked him up on the palm of
her little brown hand, and sat him in the bottom of the
canoe and gave him her scissors, and he waved them
in his little arms, and opened them and shut them and
snapped them, and said, 'I can eat nuts. I can crack
shells. I can dig holes. I can climb trees. I can breathe
O "Then Pau Amma thought a little and said, 'I have
made my choice. I will take all the gifts."
"Then the Eldest Magician made a Magic with the
right hand, with all five fingers of his right hand, and
lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma grew
smaller and smaller and smaller, till at last there
was only a little green crab swimming in the water
alongside the canoe, crying in a very small voice,
"Give me the scissors!""
"And the girl-daughter picked him up on the palm of
her little brown hand, and sat him in the bottom of
the canoe and gave him her scissors, and he
waved them in his little arms, and opened them and
shut them and snapped them, and said, 'I can eat
nuts.
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