Read the excerpt from "Missing in Action” by Thanhha Lai.(1) Father left home(2) on a navy mission(3) on this day(4) nine years ago(5) when I was almost one.(6) He was captured(7) on Route 1(8) an hour south of the city(9) by moped.(10) That’s all we know.
A
Line 1 establishes a mysterious event that the speaker wants the reader to solve.B
The end of the first stanza emphasizes the speaker’s sadness over how young she was at that time.C
Line 7 helps the reader identify where the event described by the speaker occurred.D
The one-sentence stanza emphasizes the speaker’s frank attitude toward the event being described.