Read the excerpt from We Shall Not Be Moved. Which best states the author's purpose for including this
quote in the text?
As one worker remembered it, "Well, so we stayed
whispering, and no one knowing what the other would
do, not making up our minds, for two hours. Then I
started to get up. And at just the same minute all — we
all got up together, in one second. No one after the other;
no one before. And when I saw it — that time – oh, it
excites me so yet, I can hardly talk about it. So we all
stood up, and all walked out together. And already out on
the sidewalk in front the policemen stood with the clubs.
One of them said, 'If you don't behave, you'll get this on
your head.' And he shook his club at me.[']
O to persuade the reader that strike was not a good idea
for the workers
O to give the reader the facts about when and where the
strike took place
O to tell the reader what the police felt and saw when
the strike began
O to help the reader feel the excitement and unity of the
striking workers