The correct option is: Elizabeth contracts scarlet fever and nearly dies.
Explanation:
When Frankenstein was 17 years old he had to face two difficult situations. On one hand his mother got extremely ill. She contracted scarlet fever and as a result she died. On the other hand, at the same time, he was sent away to a college in Germany.
Is there anything else you could show
The sentence that has falulty parallel structure is option A.
Option B has a mistake in you but I assume the intention was to say to South Carolina
A faulty parallel structure is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equal in meaning but not grammatically similar in form. It does not follow the same grammatical pattern