Read the excerpt from Dispatches.

I remembered the way a Phantom pilot had talked about how beautiful the surface-to-air missiles looked as they drifted up toward his plane to kill him, and remembered myself how lovely .50-caliber tracers could be, coming at you as you flew at night in a helicopter, how slow and graceful, arching up easily, a dream, so remote from anything that could harm you.

Based on the sensory details, what can be inferred about the narrator’s feelings toward the airstrikes he witnessed?
A) He was fascinated by the way they looked.
B) He became drowsy from their slowness.
C) He despised them because they were destructive.
D) He feared them for their unpredictability.

The phantom pilot was telling him about how beautiful the surface to air missiles looked when they were about to come up to try to kill him, and that reminds him how how beautiful the tracers from other airplanes or helicopters looke when they are shot at you, a tracer is a kind of ammunition that can leave a beam of light behind it so you know the direction they are going, are often used at night.

annyksl annyksl · Answer 2 · 2022-03-02T12:40:45+01:00

The narrator is fascinated by the appearance of the airstrikes, as shown in option A.

How does the narrator show that he is fascinated?

He claims that the number of planes looked adorable.
It shows how the attacks felt like a dream.
It shows how the planes acted gracefully.
He claims that the attacks were so beautiful that they didn't even look like they could harm him.

The text makes strong use of imagery, showing the reader the narrator's vision in an immersive way, which allows the reader to have a very deep sensory impression of what the narrator saw.

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