3. Which of the following describes the author's purpose for referencing "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" in paragraph 2?
A.) to help students understand that Earth needs certain conditions to
be "just right" for life to exist
B.) to teach students the origins of the fairytale and how it can be
applied to real life
C.) to emphasize how impossible it is for a "Goldilocks planet" like
Earth to exist
D.) to show students what humans need to live comfortably in their
daily lives.

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.