C. In persuasive text you are trying to get someone who thinks differently to believe in something else, in order to do so you must acknowledge other viewpionts and make rebuttle statements to actually get people to agree with you.
B is the answer, his fear of the cat.
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I did not, for some weeks, strike, or otherwise violently ill-use it; but gradually—very gradually—"I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing", and to "flee silently from its odious presence", as from the breath of a pestilence.</span>
C) is the answer. And in the novel the idea that all individual should live in the singular pursuit-of their individual dreams emerges as the primary theme