Question

analyze craft and structure—from \a pull for life and love,\, theodore winthrop
read the following abridgement of \a pull for life and love,\ a chapter from the novel love and skates. then, answer the question(s).
perry is a young cabin boy on the docked steamship ambuster. left alone on the ship, perry is fooling around with a skiff, a small rowboat on deck used to go to and from the ship when it is not docked. the others in the crew are ashore eating lunch in a foundry, or factory, when perry notices a woman lying on a sheet of ice in the river. it is early spring, and the ice is breaking up.
which of the following sentences is most clearly part of the climax of this narrative?
a. perrys heart stopped beating. . . . (paragraph 2)
b. this was the moment all his manhood had been training and saving for. (paragraph 11)
c. sinks! no,—she rises and floats again. (paragraph 22)
d. \the ice shall not carry off her hat to frighten some mother, down stream,\ says bill tarbox, catching it. (paragraph 29)

Explanation:

The climax is the turning - point or most intense moment in a narrative. Option B indicates a moment that Perry's life has been building towards, making it the most climactic. Option A could be a moment of shock but not the climax. Option C is a moment of relief after potential danger. Option D is more of a side - comment.

Answer:

B. This was the moment all his manhood had been training and saving for. (paragraph 11)