Question

a daughter of the samurai
by etsu inagaki sugimoto (excerpt)
etsu inagaki sugimoto, the daughter of a samurai, was raised in cold and isolated echigo, japan. in this excerpt from her memoir, she recounts the extensive preparations made in her village before each years first snowfall.
1 japan is often called by foreign people a land of sunshine and cherry blossoms. this is because tourists generally visit only the eastern and southern parts of the country, where the climate is mild all the year round. on the northwest coast the winters are long, snow often covering the ground from december to march or april.
2 in the province of echigo, where was my home, winter usually began with a heavy snow which came down fast and steady until only the thick, round ridge-poles of our thatched roofs could be seen. then groups of laborers, with straw mats over their shoulders and big woven hats that looked like umbrellas, came and with broad wooden shovels cut tunnels through from one side of the street to the other. the snow was not removed from the middle of the street all winter. it lay in a long pile, towering far above the house-tops. the laborers cut steps, for they were carrying snow at intervals all winter, and we children used to climb up and run along the top. we played many games
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select the correct answer from the drop-down menu.
read the following excerpts from paragraphs 1 and 5.
\tourists generally visit only the eastern and southern parts of the country, where the climate is mild all the year round.\ (paragraph 1)
\echigo is so shut off from the rest of japan by the long kiso range that during the early feudal days it was considered by the government only a frozen outpost suitable as a place of exile for offenders\ (paragraph 5)
how do the points of these two excerpts connect to each other?
these points connect because they both
explain that tourists try to spend little time in echigo.
highlight the opinions that outsiders hold toward echigo.
share reasons why government officials refuse to visit echigo.
describe echigo as a region suitable only for people who were born there.

Explanation:

The first excerpt reflects outsiders' (tourists) view of Japan's mild, popular eastern/southern regions, implicitly framing Echigo as an overlooked, harsher area. The second excerpt shares the historical government's (another group of outsiders) view of Echigo as a remote, undesirable exile outpost. Both passages convey perspectives held by people outside of Echigo.

Answer:

highlight the opinions that outsiders hold toward Echigo.