In general, the story of Everyman is about how he faces betrayal and is deceived by the people whom he thought were inconditional to him. In this case, the correct answer is number 3, he is making excuses to avoid accompanying Everyman. Cousin is not actually injured, he just does not want to help Everyman in his suffering.
I agree with the quotation. Literature should not be all about sound facts nor is it about fantasies. It must lie in between. We each have our own levels of understanding and our own personal fantasies. A work of literature must provides us with something new in order for the time spent in consuming it be worthwhile. The Book Thief tells us of hard facts but it also provides us with something else, how a life of young child harboring a wanted man is changed after the fact. In the Lord of the Rings, a fantasy world is so vivid and wide that you yourself can navigate through it.
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