Read the sentence from “Raccoon Olympics.”
It will not occur to me until I am an adult to wonder if Paul convinced all the kids he could train wild raccoons to compete in swim meets, or if he just made up a kinder explanation for me.
What is the author’s purpose in this sentence?
to let the reader know that she realized as an adult that Paul was not telling her the truth
to inform readers about how to train raccoons
to convey the feeling that the speaker was very fond of Paul when she was a child
to let the reader know she had a vivid imagination as a child