Answer:
The theme is the subject of the story
Explanation:
Similar to the word plot.
Elie Wiesel, Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) Page 4
The correct answer is B. While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
Suffering, in Auden's (and old masters') view, is not a drastic case of the human condition. Auden doesn't single it out to depict it in its tragic magnificence. He puts it in the context of ordinary lives of people who mind their own business. It happens in circumstances that are most trivial for those other people. It seems that everyone is either ignorant or indifferent to another person's suffering.
The soldiers and the journalists that were writing about it were very close to the action. They wrote about their experiences. Moreover, the Vietnam literature has no “escape hatches” (meaning we don't have comic relief, no moments of romance, and scant emphasis on coming-of-age energy). The primary goal was to make us feel like we were there.
