The tone of the text is negative. Therefore, you can eliminate answer choice b because it is positive. Yet it is in a friendly manner, they are still talking down on you, so d is wrong. A is also wrong although she words like "maybe" and "if," that is not the overall tone of the text. The best answer is c because it states, "Meanwhile, I'll read travel brochures and sigh," it tells us that she's going to wait until the actual time comes.
men in America. In April of 1776, the author and political philosopher Thomas Paine published Wheatley's poem to Washington in The Pennsylvania Magazine