Neck, from head to shoulders, a mass of bristling hair; sharp-pointed ears, long-snouted, lips snarling, fangs dripping; yelping rather than barking; wolfish of aspect and not nice to look upon when in anger - this is the husky, or wolf-dog, of the North. --"Husky-The Wolf-Dog of the North,"
Jack London

Identify the author's purpose in the passage by
completing the sentence below.

In this passage, the author is (telling a story, providing a description, sharing his opinion)

and the author's purpose is mainly (to entertain, to inform, to persuade)

c. barbarians with unexpected intelligence  

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .

the language of christian egypt.

awnser: william shakespeare was an english poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the english language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.