How can you determine where to elaborate when you revise a reflective essay? What are some useful strategies? (write like a short paragraph, but make sure it's not too detailed lol)

Read the excerpt from “the railroad earth.” o well anyway i'll be learning eventually to like the railroad and sherman will like me some day, and anyway another day another dollar. the narrator of this excerpt can best be described as friendly. optimistic. wealthy. intelligent.

What point was thomas paine trying to make by relating this antidote

What information can you find in the interview that you cannot find in the informational piece?