The correct option is B: the uncontrollable power of nature.
We can perceive how the author is trying to show us how human beings have the tools and the technology and, besides, the intelligence to capture wild animals, but what they do not seem to understand is that in many occasions they underestimate the power of nature. In this case, they are not aware of the power of the whale.
For the author the symbolism is clear: what is meant to be free, it should stay that way.
A neighborhood that someone really wants to get into think of savoury as a food like "that burger is savoury" you want it to last because it's really good. So a savoury neighborhood is something that looks really nice and you want it
Probably B. Having been informed