How does the author use rhetoric to convey his ideas and attitudes in Into the Wild? What are those ideas and attitudes? Use your understanding of rhetoric and of author’s purpose and point of view to help you infer the answers. Be sure to include plentiful evidence from the text to support your inferences.

Read this passage from "the city without us" by alan weisman: which statement best explains how the structure of the passage supports the author's purpose? a. the passage traces several events in the order that they will occur to highlight how nature conquers human civilization. b. the passage shows that natural forces such as an absence of predators and an increase in the squirrel population can lead to destructive results. c. the passage shows that natural forms such as an absence of predators and human hunters can lead to the reforestation of new york city. d. the passage identifies how two natural forces are co-dependent - the deforestation of new york and the extinction of squirrels.