<p>His father making him laugh has no correlation to what he thought about his father’s little diatribe. However, IMMEDIATELY after his father’s quote, the author mentions that there were other non-sentimental reasons for not taking turnpikes. Thus his father’s reasons are incomplete.</p>
<p>Meh, my reason for choosing “faster travel” was that in the NEXT paragraph, the father mentioned that he wanted to get to their destination as quickly as possible. But I could be wrong. </p>
<p>Also, another answer: analogy to thieves = something about progress…</p>
<p>Father’s face was tender
Writer’s motto comes off as arrogant
Something wistfulness
Cards to cards - Continuous Sequence
Writing a novel Passage 1 was didactic
Father’s comparison to cowboy - Wild exuberance
Father refusal to pick up soldier - Disloyal
Example of another reason - Inexpensive motel
Father isn’t fair - Right
True writers - Genuine writers</p>
<p>i agree with the inexpensive motel since they were all pretty much superficial money savers. i was going to put scenic route (or something like that) but it did’t really fit in with the rest in the sequence</p>
<p>incomplete?? i got the impression that the other reason’s listed after concrete world were father’s but indirect. i put defensible. I’m probably retarted, but I thought his initial reason was defensible because practical reason’s were listed after.</p>
what question did that come from? was it in a passage? I vaguely remember something about thieves but don’t remember anything about stealthy progress…</p>
<p>[edit] @powerbomb - oh yeah, now I remember, I put unaccustomed freedom too.</p>
<p>Father’s face was tender
Writer’s motto comes off as arrogant
Something wistfulness
Cards to cards - Continuous Sequence
Writing a novel Passage 1 was didactic
Father’s comparison to cowboy - Wild exuberance
Father refusal to pick up soldier - Disloyal
Example of another reason - Inexpensive motel
Father isn’t fair - Right
True writers - Genuine writers
Thieves analogy - Unaccustomed freedom</p>