My stomach feels like it’s tightening into a tiny little ball. i feel like throwing up. i keep thinking that i’ll get laughed at the minute i step off the bus. instead, i’m greeted by a couple of my friends who were in my english class last year. at that point, it hits me. ms. gruwell, my crazy english teacher from last year, is really the only person who made me think of hope for my future. talking with my friends about our english class and the adventures we had the year before, i began to feel better . . i receive my class schedule and the first teacher on the list is ms. gruwell in room 203. i walk in the room and i feel as though all the problems in my life are not important anymore. i am home. based on this excerpt, what is the author’s purpose for writing? to persuade to teach to heal to entertain

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”