A question about what both authors agree on tests whether you can find a point both texts support. Start with who the question asks about, then sum up each text's main point. A broad claim and a specific example can share an idea, so find what both texts accept. Check each text's support separately, because the authors may express the same idea in different words. Wrong choices often give one author's detail without support from the other text.
Hints
- Hint 1
In Text 1, look for where Alcott found material for her fiction. What did she do with that material?
- Hint 2
Connect the examples of Jo and her sisters to Text 1's main point. What idea do those examples support?
Step-by-step
Find the point both texts support
Step 1Find Text 1's main point
Text 1 says Alcott's family life provided material for much of her fiction, so that's the first idea to test for agreement between the authors. Did she copy those experiences exactly? The author says she often reshaped these real experiences to create characters and situations, so her own life gave her material she could change for fiction.
- Step 2
Test the link in Text 2
Does Text 2 support that link between Alcott's life and her stories? Jo resembles Alcott in several ways, including her wish to write professionally and choose her own path. Alcott also loosely based Jo's sisters on members of her own family. These are examples of real people becoming fictional characters, which supports Text 1's point about using personal experiences.
- Step 3
Match the wording to both texts
Which choice keeps the shared idea without adding a new fact? Transformed means changed into a new form, which matches reshaped these real experiences. The phrase parts of her fiction covers the characters and situations the texts describe without claiming that all her fiction came from life. Choice B.