Answer is A because, the exposition is telling what the story starts & what will cause the climax to rise
He rides into the inn in the middle of the night to tell her that he's going robbing and will come back the next day no matter what.
There can be a variety of messages-- typically a book will speak differently to each reader because each reader has different life experiences, and different ideas/morals.
For me personally: It had a very huge anti-imperialist theme. It criticized the British imperialist <span>escapades </span>abroad, and it tried to exhibit that what Martians do has little difference compared to what the British Empire had done.
I believe that the explicit message is that the author’s inspiration
for Merlin’s voice was the owl outside his window.
In the excerpt from the article "Vision, Voice and the
Power of Creation: An Author Speaks Out," T. A. Barron states that he had
difficult time finding the right voice, but at the end, the inspiration was the
sound of an owl outside his window: “I finally heard the voice of Merlin thanks
to a surprising source: the haunting, mysterious hooting of a great horned owl
outside the window of my Colorado home.”
