Read the excerpt from Dispatches. I remembered the way a Phantom pilot had talked about how beautiful the surface-to-air missiles looked as they drifted up toward his plane to kill him, and remembered myself how lovely. 50-caliber tracers could be, coming at you as you flew at night in a helicopter, how slow and graceful, arching up easily, a dream, so remote from anything that could harm you. Based on the sensory details, what can be inferred about the narrator's feelings toward the airstrikes he witnessed? He was fascinated by the way they looked. He became drowsy from their slowness. He despised them because they were destructive. He feared them for their unpredictability.

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Tianna Hurst

22 June, 11:36

Read the excerpt from Dispatches. I remembered the way a Phantom pilot had talked about how beautiful the surface-to-air missiles looked as they drifted up toward his plane to kill him, and remembered myself how lovely. 50-caliber tracers could be, coming at you as you flew at night in a helicopter, how slow and graceful, arching up easily, a dream, so remote from anything that could harm you. Based on the sensory details, what can be inferred about the narrator's feelings toward the airstrikes he witnessed? He was fascinated by the way they looked. He became drowsy from their slowness. He despised them because they were destructive. He feared them for their unpredictability.

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Jaqueline Estes · Answer 1

A - he was fascinated by the way they looked

Explanation:

They way the author describes the surface to air missiles as being 'lovely' and 'slow and graceful, 'a dream' shows that he enjoyed watching them. He even says that they were 'so remote from anything that could harm you.'

Payton Stevens · Answer 2

He was fascinated by the way they looked.

Explanation:

According to the excerpt from "Dispatches," the narrator finds airstrikes extremely interesting. In that matter, he makes use of the words beautiful, lovely, graceful and dream to describe them. Besides, he mentions that air-missiles looked "remote from anything that could harm you," so they also made him feel safe.