Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge is an 1838 historical account by Elleanor Eldridge and Frances Harriet Whipple Green. In the book, the authors assert that all people naturally have an emotional attachment to where they live, writing,_______
Which quotation from Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge most effectively illustrates the claim?
Explanation
Context: The introduction states that Eldridge and Green claim every person naturally forms an emotional bond with the place they live. The quotation has to illustrate that universal attachment to home.
Answer: D) "Home is home, to the lowly as well as the great: and no rank, or color, destroys its sacred character, its power over the mind, and the affections."
Why? The line asserts that home means the same thing to everyone, "the lowly as well as the great," and that neither rank nor color diminishes it, which supplies the universality the claim requires. "Power over the mind, and the affections" names the emotional pull directly. Both halves of the claim, naturalness and feeling, are covered.
Traps:
- A) The book exists to help "suffering and persecuted merit" → states the volume's purpose; it says nothing about place or attachment.
- B) Recommendations selected to show the esteem Eldridge is held in → describes how the narrative was assembled and how she was regarded.
- C) "Blessed are the slumbers of the innocent" → praises childhood sleep, not a bond with where one lives.