Why does the author refer to his water-skin at the beginning of the second paragraph in "oasis: africa"?
to emphasize that water is a constant need when traveling in the desert
to escalate the tension between the narrator and the other characters
to foreshadow what happens with the arabs later in the story
to create suspense as the narrator searches for water without success

Explain the effect of the rhetorical questins for the below paragraph."i pinched myself: was i still alive? was i awake? how was it possible that men, women, and children were beiing burned and that the world kept silent? no. all this could not be real. a nightmare soon i would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that i waas back in the room of my childhood, with my "