Read the excerpt from the article, "Youth Activism and Animal Rights.”
Farm animals, too, may be subject to practices that activists consider inhumane. These practices are generally perpetrated by large farms, known as factory farms, which may treat animals poorly in an effort to reduce costs and increase profits. In addition to other concerns, activists have discovered a level of confinement of pigs, hens, and cows that they consider extreme. They have developed materials conveying this information, promoting the message that farm animals deserve ethical care, just as pets do.
Read the passage from the story, "Undercover Farmer.”
I lived about ten miles from a big dairy farm, the kind they call a factory farm, and I knew from the newspaper that they were always hiring extra help—even tenth graders like me—to do odd jobs after school. I was assigned to feed the pigs, which was lucky because one of the things I’d read about was mistreatment of sows while they are pregnant, and I wanted to know more. I tucked a small camera in a back pocket of my jeans and a tiny tape recorder in the other. I thought it was too dangerous to try to take video, at least at first.
The situation was worse than I thought. The farm kept the female pigs in crates so small they didn’t even have room to turn around. I took pictures of the pigs from all sides.
Based on the details from "Youth Activism and Animal Rights,” which aspect of "Undercover Farmer" is a fictionalized element?
the existence of a factory farm
the narrator’s feelings toward the animals' conditions
the occurrences of abuse at the farm
the student becoming an activist for animal rights
Based on the details from "Youth Activism and Animal Rights," the fictionalized element in "Undercover Farmer" is the occurrences of abuse at the farm. The article mentions that activists have discovered a level of confinement of pigs, hens, and cows that they consider extreme, but it does not specifically state that abuse is taking place.
Based on the details from "Youth Activism and Animal Rights," the fictionalized element in "Undercover Farmer" is the existence of a factory farm.
To determine which aspect of "Undercover Farmer" is a fictionalized element based on the details from "Youth Activism and Animal Rights," we can compare the information provided in both passages.
In the excerpt from "Youth Activism and Animal Rights," it mentions that activists have discovered a level of confinement of pigs, hens, and cows that they consider extreme, and they have developed materials to promote the message that farm animals deserve ethical care. This suggests that factory farms mistreat animals and that confinement of animals is a concern for activists.
In the passage from "Undercover Farmer," the narrator mentions being assigned to feed pigs at a factory farm. They mention mistreatment of sows while they are pregnant and describe the female pigs being kept in crates too small for them to turn around. The narrator even takes pictures of the pigs to document their conditions.
Based on these details, it appears that the existence of a factory farm, the mistreatment of animals, and the confinement of pigs are not fictionalized elements. These details align with the information presented in "Youth Activism and Animal Rights." Therefore, the fictionalized element in "Undercover Farmer" would be the narrator becoming an activist for animal rights. This specific detail of the narrator turning into an activist is not mentioned or implied in the passage from "Youth Activism and Animal Rights."