Which statement about the author s purpose is true? similar to theme and motif, there is only one accurate interpretation of an author s purpose. like other reader interpretations, it must be supported with evidence from the text. if the author never states a purpose, there is none. most texts have no fewer than three purposes, all of which the reader must find.

Like other reader interpretations, it must be supported with evidence from the text.

In any type of analysis of a text, it must be able to be proven using evidence from the text. This is the best choice out of all the other four. Option A is wrong because there can be more than one accurate interpretation for theme and motif , so the entire statement is just wrong. Option B is correct. Option C is wrong because there is always a purpose. Option D is wrong because it says "most texts have NO fewer than three purposes". This is not true most text only have ONE purpose not three or more.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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