Read the excerpt from "The Crab That Played with the Sea"
Which group of sentences from the excerpt best
demonstrates the author's reason for writing?
Then the little girl-daughter put up her little soft brown
arms with the beautiful white shell bracelets and said,
O Eldest Magician! when my father here talked to you
at the Very Beginning, and I leaned upon his shoulder
while the beasts were being taught their plays, one
beast went away naughtily into the Sea before you
had taught him his play.
And the Eldest Magician said, "How wise are little
children who see and are silent! What was the beast
like?
And the little girl-daughter said, 'He was round and he
was flat, and his eyes grew upon stalks, and he
walked sideways like this and he was covered with
strong armour upon his back!
“And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little
children who see and are silent! What was the
beast like?' And the little girl-daughter said, "He was
round and he was flat, and his eyes grew upon
stalks, and he walked sideways like this, and he
was covered with strong armour upon his back.”
“And the Eldest Magician said, "How wise are little
children who speak truth! Now I know where Pau
Amma went. Give me the paddle!"
"So he took the paddle, but there was no need to
paddle, for the water flowed steadily past all the
islands till they came to the place called Pusat
Tasek—the Heart of the Sea—where the great
hollow is that leads down to the heart of the world
and in that hollow dliqws the Wonderful Tree, Pauh