Needing clarity or more evidence

[paulina700]

This image is from the Dedicated Verbal Toolkit Session 1. I was practicing pairing strategy which I did successfully. However, I struggled with this question because I read that “he could not bring himself to write a book as dull as his original…”. I understood that his first book was dull but it was instead that the original book seemed to demand this dull and flat secondary book.

What are some tools, evidence, I could use to avoid this mistake?

[Nimsi]

I would recommend reading the sentence multiple times. Your confusion is understandable as the sentence is a bit verbose but the phrase 'his novel everyman seemed to demand’ indicates to us that the book needed to be dull but he wasn’t able to make it so. Also there aren’t multiple books here, it’s more like initial idea (original conception) for the book and the implementation.