This question is rather old but I always make up a new answer when I scroll by it >w<
Animals can in fact understand us humans and other animals. They show this by reactin to us with body movements and sounds. I don’t believe that they understand our language, but they understand our tone of voice and behavior. Aka, why we are able to train animals :)
Correct Answer: b.drawback
The biggest show of Irony in this story is the fact that they both sold their most precious possessions in order to get the other something for their most valuable possession.
They are so different. On the outside people can see your emotions: happy, sad,mad, etc. You can be happy and smiling on the outside but how you feel and think in the inside, it could be sad.