Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey. He was five years old when his mother left him. Now he is almost another person. In the window glass, he sees a battered young man, scrawny and disfigured.

It angers him, and it steels his determination to push northward.

Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars."

Children from Central America have been making that journey, often without their parents, for two decades. But lately something has changed, and the predictable flow has turned into an exodus. Three years ago, about 6,800 children were detained by United States immigration authorities and placed in federal custody; this year, as many as 90,000 children are expected to be picked up.
How do details from the excerpts support the author’s purpose?

Read this passage: he put in his finger, and drew out a nose! ivan jakovlevitch at first let his hands fall from sheer astonishment; then he rubbed his eyes and began to feel it. a nose, an actual nose; and, moreover, it seemed to be the nose of an acquaintance! alarm and terror were depicted in ivan's face; but these feelings were slight in comparison with the disgust which took possession of his wife. "whose nose have you cut off, you monster? " she screamed, her face red with anger. "you scoundrel! you tippler! i myself will report you to the police! such a rascal! many customers have told me that while you were shaving them, you held them so tight by the nose that they could hardly sit still." nikolai gogol, "the nose" how is this passage from "the nose" typical of the genre of magical realism? a. ivan and his wife wonder how a nose came to be alive and in the bread. b. ivan is angry at those who have more money than he does, but he doesn't know what to do about it. c. ivan and his wife are shocked to see the nose, but they don't question where it came from. d. ivan's wife yells at her husband, but she really loves him and is frightened at what he's done.