Answer:
A
Explanation:
A is grammatically correct and doesn't use unnecessary punctuation.
There are two different scenes in the passage.
The first one is set on the outside of a wagon train before or during the year 1861, while the second scene is set on a house after the year 2005.
The first boy is trying to get some wood to warm his mother who is ill and he has to walk to get it. The second boy has her mother ill too, but he has to face with the problem of electricity, so he just makes a phone call to the power company to fix it.
The main difference between the historical era in which they live, when trying to solve the conflict, is that one has to solve the problem himself while the other boy makes a phone call and another person solves the problem for him.
1. Red Sea - refers to the parting of the Red sea, in the Bible. (<em>division</em>)
2. Ivory tower - allusion to a sheltered isolation. <em>(away from ordinary life</em>)
3. Siren and a harpy - refer to mythical creatures. (<em>dangerous creatures)</em>
4. The sword of Damocles- refers to an acient moral parable. (<em>something bad seems very likely to happen to you)</em>
5. Cold war - reference to the relationship between US and Soviet Union after WW II <em>(unfriendliness without fight, but with threats</em>)
6. Achilles's heel - reference to the mythological hero. (<em>a weak point in a person)</em>
7. Bart Simpson - allusion to the sitcom The Simpsons ( <em>mischievous boy</em>)
I think the answer is the narrator’s thoughts
