What textual evidence supports the analysis that the

setting develops the character's bravery?

How shall I tell what I saw? I wont carefully, my strung

bow in my hand, my skin ready for danger. There should

have been the wailings of spirits and the shrieks of

demons, but there were not. It was very silent and sunny

where I had landed the wind and the rain and the birds

that drop seeds had done their work--the grass grew in

the cracks of the broken stone. It is a fair island-no

wonder the gods built there. If I had come there, a god, I

also would have built.

-"By the Waters of Babylon,

Stephen Vincent Benet

"The grass grew in the cracks of the broken stone."

"There should have been the wailings of spirits and

the shrieks of demons"

It was very silent and sunny where I had landed"

It is a fair island no wonder the gods built there."

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Destinee Bryant

4 August, 11:46

What textual evidence supports the analysis that the

setting develops the character's bravery?

How shall I tell what I saw? I wont carefully, my strung

bow in my hand, my skin ready for danger. There should

have been the wailings of spirits and the shrieks of

demons, but there were not. It was very silent and sunny

where I had landed the wind and the rain and the birds

that drop seeds had done their work--the grass grew in

the cracks of the broken stone. It is a fair island-no

wonder the gods built there. If I had come there, a god, I

also would have built.

-"By the Waters of Babylon,

Stephen Vincent Benet

"The grass grew in the cracks of the broken stone."

"There should have been the wailings of spirits and

the shrieks of demons"

It was very silent and sunny where I had landed"

It is a fair island no wonder the gods built there."

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Natalia Massey · Answer 1

"There should have been the wailing of spirits and the shrieks of demons"

Explanation:

At the beginning of the excerpt, the speaker expresses that he went to the place expecting to face danger, and an awful setting with wailing of spirits and shrieks of demons, and even though, the place turned out to be different from what he expected, the description of the former setting develops the character's bravery because it reveals that the character has the mental or moral strength to face difficulty.