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B. reflective listening.
Explanation:
If you just listed to someone without really paying attention to what they're saying and in the end you have no idea what they've just said, then that would be one-way communication on the other speaker's part.
However, if you listen to them attentively, and can paraphrase what they said, it means that you understood their message and showed interest in the story. Thus, you reflected on their words which is known as reflective listening.
Let's focus on the second part of the passage, because I think there's a lot more meat to this part in regard to the question.
The short middle paragraph describes the man he killed in very humanizing words. He does not describe him as an enemy or an animal, as depictions of "the enemy" often do. He describes him as a young man, short and slender. His reason for killing him is out of fear, which is generally not the idea we have when we picture soliders at war, fighting for their country. It is a less attractive idea to kill a man because you "were afraid of something". This establishes a moral complexity to the act of killing in war.
Another interesting snippet is his hypothetical idea of the man living, and continuing down the road. Again, he paints this picture in very humane terms. He describes him as having "shoulders slightly stoooped", likely fatigued from the long day's march and the constant stress of war. He imagines him "suddenly smilling at some secret thought", as if he is privy to the idea that fate has spared him, and he is allowed to "continue up the trail as it bends into the fog". The second half of this sentence, about the trail and the fog, could be a metaphor for the two men going down their own separate paths like ships passing in the night, having a huge effect on the life of the other, but not knowing where the other will go from there.
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Ruskin Bond (b. 1934) is an Indian author of children’s books. He did his schooling from Bishop Cotton School in Shimla. After completing his high school education, he went to United Kingdom for further studies. While in UK, and still only 17 years old, he began to write his first novel The Room on the Roof. Published in the year 1956, the novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Bond used the advance from the novel to pay for his sea voyage back to India, where he settled down in Dehradun. Some of his most acclaimed works include Time Stops at Shamli (1989), The Ruskin Bond Children’s Omnibus (1995), Crazy Times with Uncle Ken (2011) and Tigers for Dinner: Tall Tales by Jim Corbett ’s Khansama (2013). In 1992, he won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection of essays Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (1991). Today, he is the most famous author in India and lives in Landour, Mussoorie. Binya’s Blue Umbrella is an extract from Bond’s novel The Blue Umbrella (1980). Most of Bond’s works is set in the mountains. He is inspired by the beauty and innocence of the mountain life, a reason why he decided to settle down first in Dehradun and later in Landour. Bond weaves his stories around the simplest of things in life. In 2005, the Indian film-maker, Vishal Bhardwaj, adapted The Blue Umbrella into a film. It won the National Film Award for Best Children’s Film in 2007.
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