Read this passage:
One should admit at the outset to a certain bias. Indeed I am a “Butterfly chaser, googly eyed bleeding heart and wild conservative.” I take a dim view of dams; I find it hard to learn to love cement; I am poorly impressed by concrete aggregates and statistics in cubic tons.

Which audience is the author trying to reach in this passage from “The Damation of a Canyon”?

A. People who don’t care about nature but think it should be left alone
B. People who are pro-nature and wish it to be left alone
C. People who believe that the author is correct
D. People who disagree with his ideas about nature

The author is mostly trying to reach people who disagree with his ideas about nature. This is the reason he is letting them know about his bias from the beginning. The author believes that people who disagree with him might accuse him of being biased, and therefore, of having a less trust-worthy opinion. He deals with this by disclosing it from the beginning, and therefore, avoiding such accusations.

chibuikeumeh chibuikeumeh · Answer 2 · 2022-03-23T15:26:44+01:00

The audience the author is trying to portray in the passage is:

People who disagree with his ideas about nature.

What is an audience?

These are group of people normally referred to as those who participate in a show or encounter a work of art.

From the passage above, the author is most definitely trying to reach people who disagree with his ideas about nature,hence his letting them know from the beginning bout his bias.

Those who disagree with him accuses him of being biased, so thought the author and believes he has a not trustworthy opinion.

He discloses this from the beginning which therefore makes the correct answer to be option D.