The fish died, because, using context clues, the word mournfully is usually associated with death or someone/ something leaving, and since a fish couldn't swim away, we would have to believe that the fish has died.
Answer:
check whether the lady was safe and okay after the theft incident.
Explanation:
In the book "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, Rashad originally thought the officer in the store was yelling to check whether the lady was safe and okay after the theft incident.
However, he realized that the officer was not yelling to assure the safety of the lady but was yelling at him to stop from trying to run away. Rashad found out that he was falsely accused of theft by the storekeeper to the police officer.
The author presents characteristics of Guyana's desolate and dismal landscape as a means to appeal to those who depended on the sugar production business in order to maintain themselves economically, and thus, demonstrating the importance of sugar. The whole purpose of the passage is to provide ethical evidence from the sugar scheme's current situation, presenting information about the moral consequences of this business' downfall; in this case, the economic backlash in the country of Guyana.
If you read a lot of books they typically have a main character that has a struggle and finds a way to deal with it, this includes Harry Potter, Goosebumps, and even Shakespeare, so my answer is d