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peyton Farquhar was a well to do planter, of an old and highly respected Alabama family. Being a slave owner and like other slave owners a politician,
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he was naturally an original secessionist and ardently devoted to the Southern cause. Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is
Why is this paragraph an example of a flashback?
unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with that gallant army which had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth, and he chafed under the inglorious restraint, longing for the
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release of his energies, the larger life of the soldier, the opportunity for distinction. That opportunity, he felt, would come, as it comes to all in
It tells that the main character is a slave owner to establish a central theme.
wartime. Meanwhile he did what he could. No service was too humble for him to perform in the aid of the South, no adventure too perilous for him to undertake if consistent with the character of a civilian who was at heart a
It brings the reader to the past to provide background information about the main character.
soldier, and who in good faith and without too much qualification assented to at least a part of the frankly villainous dictum that all is fair in love and war.
It adds additional information through the use of a linear chronology.

It brings the reader to the future to solve a mystery explained earlier in the story.

Answer 1

"It brings the reader to the past to provide background information about the main character."

Explanation: the paragraph interrupts the present action to give earlier details about Peyton Farquhar’s background (his family, politics, and missed military service), which is the defining feature of a flashback.