Select the sentence that would best appear in the beginning of a narrative.

my experience with my dog has taught me to never give up hope.
it was my birthday, and i was hoping that my wish for a dog would come true.
on my way home, i found a lonely and hungry-looking dog roaming the neighborhood.
i posted flyers around the neighborhood, but no one called to claim the dog.

The travels of marco polo. what is the author’s purpose for writing this text?

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance

How did the older men calm the younger ones down when they learned from some of the prisoners where they were? (chapter 3 of the book night)