I love to roam over the prairies. There I feel free and happy, but when we settle down we grow pale and die.
Explanation:
As stated by the excerpt, the speaker makes reference to the joy he experiences when he feels free and in liberty wandering about the grassland. On the other hand, he suggests that adopting a more steady or secure style of life produces weakness and death.
The excerpt from "My Heart Is Bursting" that most contributes to the cultural view that freedom is essential to happiness is <em>C. I love to roam over the prairies. There I feel free and happy, but when we settle down we grow pale and die.</em>
<em>Explanation:</em>
This is the excerpt that contributes to the view that freedom is essential to happiness because it contasts the joy caused by that sense of freedom or liberty represented in the prairies with the paleness, the inactivity and the numbing that results from settling down and narrowing our possibilities.
The bunk house is described as a very uncomfortable, tight living quarters. The description shows that the men who live there are very poor and their lives were most likely disrupted by the Great Depression.
