RC Question 3 Explanation, by LSATHacks
DISCUSSION: After I first read the passage, I couldn’t remember a thing about Getting Home Alive.
I correctly assumed that the details of each book were not particularly relevant to the overall point of the passage. And I knew that if a question asked about Getting Home Alive, I could just reread that short section and refresh myself on the details.
So for this question, I reread the relevant section. It only took 5-10 seconds. That’s how you should approach detail on RC passages: Don’t worry about remembering it, but know where it is.
The relevant section starts at line 35. The previous discussions said that the other two books departed from convention. Line 35 says that Getting Home Alive departed even further. The rest of the paragraph describes the mixed voices used by the book, and how this was a good thing.
This question asks about the author’s purpose in mentioning Getting Home Alive, so the right answer should focus on how the book’s structure was different from traditional autobiography and even from the other two Latina autobiographies.
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- Line 35 implies that Getting Home Alive is similar to the other books in that all three use innovative structure.
- Only line 39 mentions poems, and it doesn’t explain how they are integrated into the book.
- We know that this book used multiple voices. We don’t know if this was common.
- Not even true. Lines 42-43 say that the book’s structure may seem confusing. The passage didn’t say whether readers actually do find the book confusing.
- CORRECT. Lines 35-49 are all about the book’s innovative, multi-author structure.
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