[Video] Q1: Which choice best describes a major theme of the passage?

Explanation for Question 1 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

Question one asks which choice best describes a major theme of the passage. 2 So what we're going to do here is go back and look at the 3 information that they provide us in that little blur before the passage. 4 And then we'll look at some reoccurring things throughout the passage to determine the 5 major theme here. So we'll start with that first little blur paragraph. 6 It introduces kind of the exposition what's going on. 7 It's a, Silas was a Weaver and a notorious miser, 8 but then the gold he had hoarded was stolen shortly after silo's adopted a 9 young child, epi the daughter of an impoverished woman who had died suddenly. 10 So this is just kind of setting up. 11 Silas was a greedy man. 12 All his greed got stolen, and then he adopts this child epi from 13 whose mother had died suddenly. So if we look through the quotes 14 excerpts, I have highlighted here, you can just kind of see the growing love 15 that silos develops for epi and how that starts to change it. 16 And we can see the gold had kept his thoughts in an ever repeated 17 circle leading to nothing beyond itself. But Abby was an object compacted of changes 18 in hopes that force his thoughts onward. So here you can see that going 19 from being greedy and obsessed with gold, 20 to caring for this child, epi has changed his entire thought process. 21 You can see there pretty simply that Silas cared for her. 22 And then in this next little excerpt in the next column, 23 it says silence might be seen in the sun...