The excerpt illustrates how Diana feels while she's hunting. It emphasizes her excitement and the deep, ancient urge that compels her to pursue the hunt, portraying her as filled with rapture and joy in the act of hunting. This suggests that her enthusiasm for hunting is not just about the act itself, but also about the profound connection and exhilaration she experiences in the moment, reinforcing the idea that she is an eager and passionate hunter.
Read the following text from a novel. This excerpt is about the goddess Diana.
"All right, then," she says, nodding smartly. "It's time to hunt."
The boar pops twenty feet straight up, like a cork in water. "Yes! Adventure!"
Diana picks up her bow and sets off walking. She doesn't know the quarry, she doesn't know what she'll do when she finds it. She only knows the urge to hunt, ancient and irresistible. Moving with that urge makes her body thrum with rapture.
She breaks into a run. The animals—those that can keep up—run with her for a while, then break away and return to their own lives, feeling the same joy of being they've always felt, but more deeply than before. Diana doesn't say good-bye to them, nor do they feel any loss as she leaves.
From Martha Beck, Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening. Copyright 2016 by Martha Beck
The previous text suggested that Diana was an eager hunter. How does this novel build on or challenge that idea?
it shows some ways Diana tried to avoid hunting.
it suggests that Diana preferred hunting alone.
it suggest that Diana felt obligated to go hunting.
it illustrates how Diana feels while she's hunting.
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