The answer would be C.
Since this isn't a flashback, first person, or doesn't lead to anything stressful.
It uses a lot of different words to add on the the terror of the "Death swamp," such as ooze, desperate, hopeless, or even viciously.
It's either Those who try to overrule fate do so their sorrow, or It's always best not to take any risks in life. Are you in 8th grade Language arts?
A. The mystery around the monkey's paw is introduced
Hints of this lie in the adjectives such as "curiously" and the mention of "magic" which tells the reader that there might be something more to monkey's paw, and that maybe we should be curious.
