The theme is trying to show rules can be bent meaning they are subjective; this means they must be examined according to the context where it was said inorder to see it's best application.
In the option D; when the writer ignored his father's words he learnt he was making his own choices because his Father had with stern warning quizzed his son that the god's food were poisonus and supposedly bitter. In great enquistion he went haunting for the god's food. He found the god's food close to the squeaking of rats and on initial recline, he defer to go eat the food. But he went on eventually and eat it finding it sweet.
