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1.The author include the inner dialogue in paragraph 4 because it shows us that  he's really desperate for food and that hes thoughtful of the horse.

2:For example:“There’s food, Alec, food—"
Another example Then he shook his head, hating himself.

3.This shows that: He's trying to convince his self to kill the horse.

This evidence proves:That He's really thoughtful of the horse

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The author includes the  inner dialogue because it shows that Alec is caring and the horse saved his life.

For example "Then he shook his head, hating himself. Kill the animal that had saved his life? Never—

even if he could, he would die of starvation first!

This shows that Alec is caring and would do anything then kill the horse.

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The Author includes inner dialogue in (paragraph 4) because it shows that Alec is a caring person.

For Example: When someone gives you something you can give them something or help in return

This shows that Think before your actions

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The Author include paragraph 4 an inner Dialogue Because the Alec wanted to kill the horse but Alec think for a second and released that he should not because the horse helped him.

For Example:“There’s food, Alec, food—if you could only find some way of killing him!” Then he shook his head, hating himself. Kill the animal that had saved his life? Never

This Shows that how the horse cares about Alec and how he does not want him to be in danger and how Alec released how he was be caring to and not be rude to Alec by not killing him.

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The author includes the inner dialogue in paragraphs 4 because it show that Alex Doesn't communicate a lot.

For example: "There’s food, Alec, food—if you could only find some way of killing

him!”

This Shows That Alex is not a mean person and gets they way people feel.

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he includes the dialogue because he want the animle to live and he think the animle should live becasue he saved his life.

exsample:There’s food, Alec, food—if you could only find some way of killing

him!” Then he shook his head, hating himself. Kill the animal that had saved his life? Never

even if he could, he would die of starvation first!

i like that answer because the horse save them from dieing.

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The author includes the inner dialogue because he values the horses life more than his

For example “There’s food, Alec, food—if you could only find some way of killing

him

This shows that even though he is starving he wants to repay the stallion in the text that is important

Another piece of evidence is

"Kill the animal that had saved his life? Never

even if he could, he would die of starvation first!"

This shows that he loves the horse and wouldn't do any harm to it

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The author added inner dialogue to show a selfish side of Alec's mind.In the text it says “There's food, Alec, food if you could only find some way of killing him!” It shows how desperate he was to find a source of food.But he was kind and didn't kill him,He was ashamed that he thought killing the horse who saved his life.

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The author put that in to show  a better perspetive on whats happening because he finds it important and wants us to know how the problem was starting.

Evidence 1-  “There’s food, Alec, food—if you could only find some way of killing

him!”

Evidence 2- Then he shook his head, hating himself. Kill the animal that had saved his life? Never—

even if he could,

This shows how the author wanted us tp know how the problem started.

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The author includes inner dialogue because the character is talking inside of his head. In the text, it says, "“There’s food, Alec, food—if you could only find some way of killing

him!”" Since there is only one character, they would be talking inside of their head. Right before that line, it says, "The boy’s subconscious thought rose to the

surface of his mind." This line is saying how Alec is speaking inside of his head and not out loud.

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“There’s food, Alec, food—if you could only find some way of killing him".
this evidence shows us that he thinking about killing the horse.

Then he shook his head, hating himself. Kill the animal that had saved his life. this evidence shows us that he thinks he should not kill the horse because he saved his life.

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The author uses inner dialogue so he can explain to the readers what the protagnist is thinking. example ''here’s food, Alec, food—if you could only find some way of killing

him!” Then he shook his head, hating himself. Kill the animal that had saved his life?  another example ''Hadn’t he called it carragheen? Yes, that was it.

A sort of seaweed'' those two examples show how the author uses inner dialogue so he can explain the progtanist thinking.

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the author uses inner dialogue because he wants the reader to have a better visual on what is happening in both the story and in his head. for example, “There’s food, Alec, food if you could only find some way of killing him!” Then he shook his head, hating himself." this evidence shows that the dialogue is about how Alec wants food and wants to find ideas to kill it, but then not soon after, he shakes his head and tries not to eat the horse. another example, "Kill the animal that had saved his life? Never even if he could, he would die of starvation first!" this shows that he tries to resist eating the horse and he would rather die of starvation than eat the horse, and he later on found his own food yet, he gives some to the horse.

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That night Alec slept better than he had since he had been on the island. He had found

food—food to sustain him and the Black Stallion!

Since he found what he was looking for he can finly rest and he was super happy when he found the food

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