in this excerpt from the novel the country of pointed firs, the unnamed narrator—a female writer—receives a visit from a retired sea captain. adapted from captain littlepage by sarah orne jewett \i am an old man, as you can see,\ said captain littlepage, \and i have been a shipmaster the greater part of my life. you may not think it, but i am above eighty years of age.\ \you must have left the sea many years ago,\ i said. \i should have been serviceable at least five or six years more,\ he answered. now we were approaching dangerous ground, but i asked to hear more with all the deference i really felt. \i had a valuable cargo of general merchandise from the london docks to fort churchill, a station of the old company on hudsons bay,\ said the captain earnestly. \we were delayed in loading, and baffled by head winds and a heavy tumbling sea all the way north. then the fog kept us off the coast; and when i made port at last, it was too late to delay in those northern waters with such a vessel and such a crew as i had. they cared for nothing, and idled me into a fit of sickness; but my first mate was a good, excellent man, so we made what speed we could to get clear of hudsons bay. i meant it to be my last voyage in her, and so it proved. she had been an excellent vessel in her day. of the cowards aboard her i cant say so much.\ hen you were wrecked?\ i asked. \i wasnt by any fault of mine,\ said the captain gloomily. \it was a hard life at sea in those days, i am sure,\ i said. \it was a dogs life,\ said the poor old gentleman, \but it made men of those who followed it. i see a change for the worse even in our own town here; full of loafers now. i view it that a community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled newspaper. in the old days, a good part o the best men here knew a hundred ports of something of the way folks lived in them. shippings a terrible loss.\ 2 select the correct answer. how does the underlined paragraph reinforce a central idea in the passage? a. the paragraph represents a flashback to a time when shipping brought culture to the region. b. the narrator provides background information about wind and tides. c. the paragraph foreshadows that a flood is about to interrupt the conversation. d. the narrator thinks she can hear the tide turning, which mirrors the times changing.

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in this excerpt from the novel the country of pointed firs, the unnamed narrator—a female writer—receives a visit from a retired sea captain. adapted from captain littlepage by sarah orne jewett \i am an old man, as you can see,\ said captain littlepage, \and i have been a shipmaster the greater part of my life. you may not think it, but i am above eighty years of age.\ \you must have left the sea many years ago,\ i said. \i should have been serviceable at least five or six years more,\ he answered. now we were approaching dangerous ground, but i asked to hear more with all the deference i really felt. \i had a valuable cargo of general merchandise from the london docks to fort churchill, a station of the old company on hudsons bay,\ said the captain earnestly. \we were delayed in loading, and baffled by head winds and a heavy tumbling sea all the way north. then the fog kept us off the coast; and when i made port at last, it was too late to delay in those northern waters with such a vessel and such a crew as i had. they cared for nothing, and idled me into a fit of sickness; but my first mate was a good, excellent man, so we made what speed we could to get clear of hudsons bay. i meant it to be my last voyage in her, and so it proved. she had been an excellent vessel in her day. of the cowards aboard her i cant say so much.\ 	hen you were wrecked?\ i asked. \i wasnt by any fault of mine,\ said the captain gloomily. \it was a hard life at sea in those days, i am sure,\ i said. \it was a dogs life,\ said the poor old gentleman, \but it made men of those who followed it. i see a change for the worse even in our own town here; full of loafers now. i view it that a community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled newspaper. in the old days, a good part o the best men here knew a hundred ports of something of the way folks lived in them. shippings a terrible loss.\ 2 select the correct answer. how does the underlined paragraph reinforce a central idea in the passage? a. the paragraph represents a flashback to a time when shipping brought culture to the region. b. the narrator provides background information about wind and tides. c. the paragraph foreshadows that a flood is about to interrupt the conversation. d. the narrator thinks she can hear the tide turning, which mirrors the times changing.

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# Brief Explanations:
The captain reminisces about shipping in the past, indicating a time when shipping brought knowledge and exposure to different ports and cultures to the region. There are no references to wind - tide background info, flood foreshadowing, or tide - time mirroring in the context.
# Answer:
A. The paragraph represents a flashback to a time when shipping brought culture to the region.

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