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now all right people a new SAT section analyzing purpose text structure word

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choice citing evidence and a whole bunch of other crap alright so we're gonna [text on screen]

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start at question one here of eleven in this series all about Mark Twain or

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Samuel Clemens as we all know and love him so let's just dive into the question

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then we'll get back to the reading as we skim through to try to what guess or

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figure out an answer here we go we can the reader infer as to why Twain was

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drawn to the idea of becoming a steamboatman

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all right well here the correct answer is D well Twain this young boy was [steamboat]

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apparently obsessed with reputation he refers over and over and over again to [picture of Mark Twain]

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his desire for distinction and glory and attributes his misery to his obscurity

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see were highlighting words right they're distinct in glory they're in [text on screen]

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obscurity right there although piloting a steamboat did come with a princely

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salary right there see we're not making this up there's no evidence to support

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that it was one of the only ways to make money in those days so yeah I might have

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been there but when the answer Twain mentions his father at the beginning of [falling money]

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the passage but this is mainly to show that he already had a certain status in

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town so it's not new there appear to be Twain also talks at length about his [painting of people at banquet]

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steamboat frenemy but well he first mentions his dream of becoming a

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steamboatman before all that drama goes down so you

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have a creek entry fee [steamboat]

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