Please answer asap due today After reading the "Storytelling and Cultural Traditions" article, tell me the author's purpose AND the central idea. Please explain your answers.

*Article can be read from the attached class slides (All are included in the full article, not individual articles).
1-2 paragraph

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Based on the map, which arabian city will marco polo describe after kalhat if he continues northwest across the arabian sea?

How does the reputation of the author convey authority? from ''city upon a hill''