Question

Read the following passage and answer the question below.

From "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," by F. Scott Fitzgerald

As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital. Whether this anachronism had any bearing upon the

Answer 1

Read the following passage and answer the question below.

From "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," by F. Scott Fitzgerald

As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital. Whether this anachronism had any bearing upon the astonishing history I am about to set down will never be known.

What does this paragraph suggest about the time and place in which it is set? Write a detailed reflection paragraph of at least five sentences in which you analyze the meanings of difficult words and determine what the author was trying to suggest about the story.

Answer 2

I don't exactly know how to answer the first question as to what the paragraph suggests about the time and place... i mean, the only thing it gives me is the time being before the 1900's