Read the following passage from "One Thing They Aren't: Maternal." What is wrong with these coldhearted mothers, to give life then carelessly toss it away? Are they freaks or diseased or unnatural? Cackling mad like Piper Laurie in Carrie? In a word-ha. As much as we may like to believe that mother animals are designed to nurture and protect their young, to fight to the death, if need be, to keep their offspring alive, in fact, nature abounds with mothers that defy the standard maternal script in a raft of macabre ways. Work Cited: Angier, Natalie. "One Thing They Aren't: Maternal." The New York Times. 9 May 2006. Web. In the bolded passage, the author asks a series of questions. What is the purpose of these questions? to distract the reader with a red herring to rouse the reader to action to express the author's own despair to create suspense

Read the following passage from "One Thing They Aren't: Maternal." What is wrong with these coldhearted mothers, to give life then carelessly toss it away? Are they freaks or diseased or unnatural? Cackling mad like Piper Laurie in Carrie? In a word-ha. As much as we may like to believe that mother animals are designed to nurture and protect their young, to fight to the death, if need be, to keep their offspring alive, in fact, nature abounds with mothers that defy the standard maternal script in a raft of macabre ways. Work Cited: Angier, Natalie. "One Thing They Aren't: Maternal." The New York Times . 9 May 2006. Web. In the bolded passage, the author asks a series of questions. What is the purpose of these questions? to distract the reader with a red herring to rouse the reader to action to express the author's own despair to create suspense