Answer Choices
underline the importance of the narrator’s connection to Sempere.
stress how friendships helped the narrator deal with his difficult home situation.
emphasize the emotional connection Sempere feels to reading.
imply that the narrator’s sentiments caused him to make an irrational decision.
Explanation for Question 9 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8
Okay. So number nine, the word friend is used twice in lines, 2 57 and 58 to do what, what is the purpose of doing that? 3 We're gonna have to look at the context, not just lines 57, 58. 4 Um, so here is if you send 58, 5 this is what they're talking about here. What's read a little bit before and 6 a little bit after. Why is he saying the word friend twice? 7 So let's highlight friend. Um, 8 I'm going to start here. I was aware that some parent knew a few 9 authors who frequented establishment and judging by the character with which he handled the 10 volume. I thought perhaps that Mr. Dickens was one of them. 11 Is he a friend of yours? A lifelong friend. 12 And from now on he's your friend too. And so it seems like the 13 only reason that sound pair actually knows Dickens is because he reads his book. 14 Um, and we know that, 15 uh, this narrator is not actually meeting some parent or not meeting Charles Dickens 16 in real life. So the way that he becomes the friend of the narrator 17 is through reading, which means that there's like this, 18 uh, friendship through reading. 19 Right? So I think he uses the word friend to indicate that the experience 20 of reading is much deeper than just reading a book. 21 You actually confronted the author. Um, 22 and then we see that the narrative actually even says after that, 23 that he takes his new friend home. Um, and we know clearly that he 24 has not met Mr. Deakins, but that the narrator is just reading the book. 25 So it kind of ...