Based on the excerpt provided, the genre the author uses to tell the story is adventure. The scene describes a tense moment of survival and rescue, indicating elements common in adventure narratives.
There’s a moment in which nothing happens, as if no one can quite believe what he is hearing. Then one man shouts, “Survivors!” and scrambles to take the bowline. Another reaches far down into the boat to haul Daniel up like a fish on a line. They gesture to me. “Petite fille,” they gasp. I lift my arms, and someone takes my hands. The blanket falls from my shoulders as I’m in the air. “A girl,” one says. “A child.”
I don’t have time to think about how strange these words sound, how little I feel like a child, before I am half carried, half dragged down the dock, men smelling of sweat and wood and coal pushing in on either side of me. I am still weak, my forehead on fire once again, and I let them lift me, though I don’t like their arms around my waist, though I want to turn back to Eva to say, Thank you, thank you for your berries and your kindness. Thank you, Henry, for keeping us safe when there was no one else. Daniel is beside me, though he is allowed to walk on his own. I can hear him talking to the men, but I can’t make out the words. There are shouts all around us. “The Asia! Survivors! Make way! Survivors!”
Excerpt from Big Water by Andrea Curtis. Printed with permission by Orca Book Publishers
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Question
Use the story to answer the question.
Based on this excerpt from the end of a story, what genre does the author use to tell the story?
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fantasy
fantasy
science fiction
science fiction
mystery
mystery
adventure
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