Actually no, It's not C, I took this on edge and the answer is Both consider how cultural and political forces affect the literary work.
An idiom is a phrase used to represent something that has nothing to do with it and is not literal. For example: raining cats and dogs means it's raining hard and not literally raining animals. Seething with rage is not an idiom as seethe basically means mad or angry. Angry or mad with rage can be literal and is not an idiom.
Answer:
I believe its C.
Explanation:
From the passage it seems that he's starting to look sicker and sicker.
Another word for no regrets is impenitent.
Impenitent means to not have any regrets or feel any shame about one's attitude or actions.
Examples of impenitent in a sentence :
-The bully was impenitent when he pushed the little boy off the swings.
-Julie's impenitent attitude after reading Sara's diary in front of her whole class, led to detention from the Headmistress.
It's pretty simple. You only need to focus on the reasons why people are homeless. Do they have good education? do they get better job? Or do they find ways inorder not to be homeless? Questions like that will help you determine why? and what can be the solutions inorder for them not to be homeless.