"Left in the Dust" by Ruth Winne Roberts, from Cricket Magazine, September 2006. Copyright (c) 2006 by Carus Publishing d/b/a Cricket Media
How do paragraphs 1-3 contribute to the development of the central ideas of the passage?
The paragraphs introduce the idea that people should have expected significant transportation
changes to occur in their lifetime.
The paragraphs show that people accepted many new inventions but could not foresee that anything
could replace the horse
The paragraphs grab the reader's attention by showing how people failed to appreciate the new
conveniences available to them
The paragraphs use distressing imagery to help the reader understand the reasons that people were
reluctant to use automobiles