The story was adopted FROM another book
Uses allegorical characters, gives moral guidance to the audience
The correct answer would be option D:"To show the narrator making the connection that he and his mother are abandoned like the thief's family", this is because the author says that he "saw myself and my mother", which means that he feels identified to the situation that the thief's mother and sister lived (being abandoned), enough so that he had a "deja vu" when living the experience for himself.
Option A is not correct because in no part of the excerpt does the author say that he has other family that is not his mother. Option B is not correct because there is only one narrator, not two. Option C is not correct because it never says that the town is deserted.
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It makes the reader feel confident that Ellery has narrowed down the suspects who may have committed the crime and will proceed to find one of them guilty.
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