Passage 1: Zoo
1 The children were always good during the month of August, especially when it began to get near the twenty-third. It was on this day that the great silver spaceship carrying Professor Hugo's Interplanetary Zoo settled down for its annual six-hour visit to the Chicago area.
2 Before daybreak the crowds would form, long lines of children and adults both, each one
clutching his or her dollar, and waiting with wonderment to see what race of strange creatures the Professor had brought this year.
3 In the past they had sometimes been treated to three-legged creatures from Venus, or tall, thin men from Mars, or even snake-like horrors from somewhere more distant. This year, as the great round ship settled slowly to earth in the huge tri-city parking area just outside of Chicago, they watched with awe as the sides slowly slid up to reveal the familiar barred cages. In them were some wild breed of nightmare—small, horse-like animals that moved with quick, jerking motions and constantly chattered in a high-pitched tongue. The citizens of Earth clustered around as Professor Hugo's crew quickly collected the waiting dollars, and soon the good Professor himself made an appearance, wearing his many-colored rainbow cape and top hat. “Peoples of Earth,” he called into his microphone.
4 The crowd's noise died down and he continued. “Peoples of Earth, this year you see a real treat for your single dollar—the little-known horse-spider people of Kaan—brought to you across a million miles of space at great expense. Gather around, see them, study them, listen to them, tell your friends about them. But hurry! My ship can remain here only six hours!”
5 And the crowds slowly filed by, at once horrified and fascinated by these strange creatures that looked like horses but ran up the walls of their cages like spiders. "This is certainly worth a dollar,'' one man remarked, hurrying away. "I'm going home to get the wife.''
6 All day long it went like that, until ten thousand people had filed by the barred cages set into the side of the spaceship. Then, as the six-hour limit ran out, Professor Hugo once more took microphone in hand. “We must go now, but we will return next year on this date. And if you enjoyed our zoo this year, phone your friends in other cities about it. We will land in New York tomorrow, and next week on to London, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Then on to other worlds!”
7 He waved farewell to them, and as the ship rose from the ground the Earth peoples agreed that this had been the very best Zoo yet. . . .
8 Some two months and three planets later, the silver ship of Professor Hugo settled at last onto the familiar jagged rocks of Kaan, and the queer horse-spider creatures filed quickly out of their cages. Professor Hugo was there to say a few parting words, and then they scurried away in a hundred different directions, seeking their homes among the rocks.
9 In one, the she-creature was happy to see the return of her mate and offspring. She babbled a greeting in the strange tongue and hurried to embrace them. ``It was a long time you were gone. Was it good?''
10 And the he-creature nodded. ``The little one enjoyed it especially. We visited eight worlds and saw many things.''
11 The little one ran up the wall of the cave. ``On the place called Earth it was the best. The creatures there wear garments over skins, and they walk on two legs.''
12 "But isn't it dangerous?'' asked the she-creature.
13 "No,'' her mate answered. ``There are bars to protect us from them. We remain right in the ship. Next time you must come with us. It is well worth the nineteen commocs it costs.''
14 And the little one nodded. "It was the very best Zoo ever. . . .''
“Zoo” by Edward D. Hoch. Accessed via Unify.
Passage 2: Excerpt from The Voyage
V.
The peaky islet shifted shapes,
High towns on hills were dimly seen,
We past long lines of Northern capes
And dewy Northern meadows green.
We came to warmer waves, and deep 5
Across the boundless east we drove,
Where those long swells of breaker sweep
The nutmeg rocks and isles clove.
VI.
By peaks that flamed, or, all in shade,
Gloom’d the low coast and quivering brine 10
With ashy rains, that spreading made
Fantastic plume or sable pine;
By sands and steaming flats, and floods
Of mighty mouth, we scudded fast,
And hills and scarlet-mingled woods 15
Glow’d for a moment as we past.
VII.
O hundred shores of happy climes,
How swiftly stream’d ye by the bark!
At times the whole sea burn’d, at times
With wakes of fire we tore the dark; 20
At times a carven craft would shoot
From havens hid in fairy bowers,
With naked limbs and flowers and fruit,
But we nor paused for fruit nor flowers.
VIII.
For one fair Vision ever fled 25
Down the waste waters day and night,
And still we follow’d where she led,
In hope to gain upon her flight.
Her face was evermore unseen,
And fixt upon the far sea-line; 30
But each man murmur’d, ‘O my Queen,
I follow till I make thee mine.’
IX.
And now we lost her, now she gleam’d
Like Fancy made of golden air,
Now nearer to the prow she seem’d 35
Like Virtue firm, like Knowledge fair,
Now high on waves that idly burst
Like Heavenly Hope she crown’d the sea
And now, the bloodless point reversed,
She bore the blade of Liberty. 40
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XI.
And never sail of ours was furl’d,
Nor anchor dropt at eve or morn; 50
We loved the glories of the world,
But laws of nature were our scorn;
For blasts would rise and rave and cease,
But whence were those that drove the sail
Across the whirlwind’s heart of peace, 55
And to and thro’ the counter-gale?
XII.
Again to colder climes we came,
For still we follow’d where she led:
Now mate is blind and captain lame,
And half the crew are sick or dead. 60
But blind or lame or sick or sound
We follow that which flies before:
We know the merry world is round,
And we may sail for evermore.
“The Voyage” by Alfred Lord Tennyson. In the public domain.
In passage 1, how does the change of setting at the end of the story impact the story as a whole?
by explaining that Kaan has a more peaceful society than Earth
by illustrating the differences between the peoples of Earth and Kaan
by highlighting that the people of Kaan are more evolved than the people of Earth
by demonstrating that the people of Earth have a better understanding of the people of Kaan after visiting the zoo