Can you please provide a link to the story?
Colons are used after complete sentences, and what comes after the colon should give more information on what came before it. Knowing this information, A can be ruled as the correct answer.
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<u>Answer:</u> The author describes the dangerous situation that the characters in the story are facing.
<u>Explanation:</u> As we read each part from the passage, we see that all of them contain one thing. And, what exactly is that? We see that all of them contain the situation that they're all experiencing at the moment.
<u>Cited text:</u> <em>“I shouldn’t think of this as easy. I know what I need to do here, but I could lose one these men if just one thing goes wrong.”</em>
We can see that this is a present statement, and that something is going wrong between those people. I'm supposing it's a fire or something of that nature.
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i thinkk the story would have to persuade the reader wanting to read more to find out what will happen next