The answer is B: The emphasis on the role of government in people's lives implies that society has gone too far to ensure equality.
In this short story by Kurt Vonnegut, we are presented with a dystopian society in the year 2081. Through a fast narrative and the author´s characteristic absurdist humor, he dwells on a critical view of how society guarantees equality for everyone at the expense of outstanding citizens who are forced to use “handicaps” to make them “normal”, thus securing equality for everyone, even if what becomes “normal” is mediocre and sad.
The correct sentence is sentence C, I believe.
C) by showing contrast the paragraph foreshadows future family conflict
Viola, at this point in the plot, is still under the belief that her only brother Sebastian has died of drowning during their shipwreck. She is still in disguise as a young man and her reply is a figurative and adorned way to say that he/she is the only surviving scion of his/her family.
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D) He adds comic asides to make the story humorous
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