I believe the answer is "It does not state a life lesson, whereas a theme does"
The answer is " his sentences are short and direct". When your begin to read " In Another Country", you find that their kind of short and not drawn out. I didn't say flowing because his writing didn't sound "flowy". He gets straight to the point.
The end of the introductory paragraph if it's an essay or the first sentence of it if it's a paragraph
Explanation: Well, The speaker says that it is hard for Nature to "hold" the color gold. This just means that the gold hue doesn't last long. he also means that (nothing good or precious can last forever) by using nature and The Garden of Eden as metaphors for cycles of life and death and the loss of innocence. so in short it's A.)