Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of Animal Farm.

Every Monday Mr. Whymper visited the farm as had been arranged. He was a sly-looking little man with side whiskers, a solicitor in a very small way of business, but sharp enough to have realized earlier than anyone else that Animal Farm would need a broker and that the commissions would be worth having. The animals watched his coming and going with a kind of dread, and avoided him as much as possible.

How does the pacing of this passage move the plot forward?

The quick pace makes readers suspenseful and confused about Mr. Whymper.
The quick pace allows the author to pass an uneventful period of time quickly.
The slow pace helps to place emphasis on the animals’ dread of Mr. Whymper.
The slow pace helps develop Mr. Whymper’s character with descriptive details

the pacing is rather slow and there is descriptive language that the writer provides about this mysterious man that the animals will be doing business with. the readers aren't confused it can't be A, the description of this man is rather eventful since it goes against the animal morals so it is not B, and the animals do dread the thought of Mr. Whymper however this is a detail that leads up to his characterization and so it is a part of his character description. The dread from the animals is only one sentence while Mr. Whymper's character is the whole paragraph.

mcarc09 mcarc09 · Answer 2 · 2025-04-09T19:05:38-04:00

After reading the excerpt from Chapter 6 of "Animal Farm," we can say the following about how the pacing of the passage moves the plot forward.

D. The slow pace helps develop Mr. Whymper's character with descriptive details.

One way to identify the pace of a text is by looking at the length of the sentences.

A fast-paced text will use shorter sentences, while a slow-paced text will use longer ones.

The passage from "Animal Farm" that we are analyzing here is slow-paced. Take, for instance, the long sentence below:

"He was a sly-looking little man with side whiskers, a solicitor in a very small way of business, but sharp enough to have realized earlier than anyone else that Animal Farm would need a broker and that the commissions would be worth having."

The author takes several lines to describe Mr. Whymper instead of doing it briefly, in few words.

By doing so, he offers details in way that allows the reader to focus on the character of Mr. Whymper.

We can tell the character will have some importance, otherwise the author wouldn't have taken so long to describe it.

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