Which question should a reader ask to identify an author's purpose? why did the author write this text? what evidence does the author provide? what is the author's opinion on this topic? how effective is the evidence?

Buck did not cry out. he did not check himself, but drove in upon spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. they rolled over and over in the powdery snow. spitz gained his feet almost as though he had not been overthrown, slashing buck down the shoulder and leaping clear. twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled. read this passage. explain what the conflict shows about buck and spitz.

How does douglass contrast his childhood on colonel lloyd’s plantation with this arrival on baltimore at the auld’s?

What does this excerpt explain about this setting