The man's garden
The passage goes into great imagery and detail about the man's garden and how it has grown and thrived. It describes the grape vines, looking like ropes, circling the whole garden and closing it in and how the flowers have bloomed in a hundred different colors all around.
In an informational text/essay/ composition, the thesis statement should be placed at the end if the introduction so you give the reader the main idea you are going to develop later on.
Then you write the body paragraphs providing information to support your thesis statement. After that, you might include examples from different sources.
Finally, you state the conclusion which should be a recap of what you talked about and you should never include new information.
I think the answer is b.
when you are citing in a paper you typically put the last name and year in parenthetical citations.
