The correct answer is C: The setting reveals that the village population is small and maintains a country lifestyle. Despite the relative "growth" of the village, it still has less than five hundred people, who evidently lead very rural lives. The box used in the ritual, despite its importance, is stored away with little care (it spent a year in a barn, another in the post office), as if it were unthinkable that anyone would steal it. This is typical of a small village where everybody knows each other.
The first sentence is correct bc the semicolon divides two independent clauses while replacing a conjunction
Oh geez,this went from me trying to answer your question to, im now asking a question.Im kinda confused because not all of them have commas.
B. Comparison and/or contrast