Question

Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.

1.) It is easy to write the line "people starve to death"; it is much harder to deal with the harsh reality. 2.) But you need to understand this point, if only to see how little choice you might have in what you eat. 3.) The itinerant poor might literally die in the street.

In what way is the second sentence effective?

It highlights the number of impoverished people in Elizabethan England.
It explains how the reader can avoid dealing with the hungry poor.
It illustrates how the diet of Elizabethan England can benefit the reader.
It emphasizes why this passage is important to the reader personally.

Answer 1

It emphasizes why this passage is important to the reader personally — by addressing "you" and showing how lack of choice in food could directly affect the reader.