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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by current events the preeminent publication

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for all marine species traveling the eastern australian current All

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right this question deals with a phrase found in the

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line Fifty nine Sixty the passage so let's just read

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it right there okay The question is what purpose does

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the phrase silent current of events lines fifteen ninety sixty

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served right near the potential answers What purpose Purpose Okay

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here we go Two words of the key to this

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question and those words are silent and current kind of

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like silent and deadly but less fatal guys quit smirking

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The author uses the phrase silent current of events as

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a way to suggest that most americans will not see

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any change coming until it's already upon them Kind of

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like no one ever sees what's coming at the end

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of an m night channel and film except for the

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closing credits Thankfully anyway let's take those two words and

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apply them to answer it's true that the ocean tides

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are controlled by currents However anyone who stood near the

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ocean khun tell you that the ocean tides are anything

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but silent though the currents are silent than answer is

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not for us for that matter if we're looking for

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silent currents floodwaters would qualify even less than ocean tides

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So answer b is out as well as for answer

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d it could be argued that electrical currents runs silently

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However this articles written in eighteen thirty to a time

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when electricity and the use of electrical motors outside of

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scientific circles was still in its infancy so to suggest

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that a travel author in the early eighteen hundreds would

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use this kind of technology is a metaphor for political

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change is too much of a stretch Well finally answer

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e takes the word current and uses its alternative meaning

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to suggest that the current political climate could undermine america's

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government But if that was what she had intended the

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right way to say it would be current events not

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current of events So assuming that a published author knows

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howto speak english answer e doesn't work either There's an

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old saying strong currents run deep and let's face it

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the deeper under a water a person descends the quieter

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it becomes When this article the author is suggesting that

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the historical events are like the deep underwater currents of

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a river America she says can stay as arrogant and

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self serving as it wants as long as they can

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figure out a way to stop the river there sailing

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on from flowing downstream like we ain't got a prayer

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got it The answer We're looking for his sea and 00:02:29.245 --> [endTime] wow we totally did not see that coming

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