I would go with C. the first two paragraphs build tension, making the reader think something bad is going to happen. And then Surprise!! its just the brother. that is how the author creates surprise. Hope this helps! need anything else just ask! :)
A broken relationship can be fixed if the right channels of communication are provided. In case the author wants to show his or her friends that there is a possiblility to mend things, the bridge between them would be the best object to simbolize the means to work out the broken relationship. Figuratively, the bridge can create the path which will take each part to the other side to overcome past difficulties. The right option is C.
The three allusions Ralph Waldo Emerson makes are Francis Bacon, Irish dayworkers, Coeur-de Lions.
In the beginning of the "Society and Solitude" he talks about the capital and mentions how it is the want of animals spirits and in this excerpt appears all these three.
"The capital defect of cold, arid natures is the want of animal spirits. They seem a power incredible, as if God should raise the dead. The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid, with a kind of fear. It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of <em>Coeur-de-Lion</em>, or an <em>Irishman's day's-work</em> on the railroad. [...] As <em>Bacon</em> said of manners, “To obtain them, it only needs not to despise them,"
