Comparing Accounts of Clara Barton’s Story Answers

Which best describes the author’s purpose in the excerpt you read from A Story of the Red Cross?to inform readers about dangers of the sea, and to persuade them not to live on an islandto inform readers about conditions in Galveston after the hurricane, and to persuade them that the Red Cross was heroicto inform readers about the truth of the damage, and to persuade them that the Red Cross was not neededto inform readers about the mysterious parts of Barton’s story, and to persuade them that she

✔ by listing the daily tasks completedby providing survivor storiesby describing the destruction