(c)destroying it..to make something out of an insect u must destroy right?
Generally the most important part of a main idea is the topic sentence.
The correct answer is A. Cotton-like clouds.
This is a rather descriptive choice that is used to bring the image of cotton to your mind and then use that image of cotton to create a new image of the clouds. Unlike the soldiers, it not only describes the looks, but also the feeling, the fluffiness of cotton.
McCandles describes what he is looking for on his odyssey, particularly on the Alaska trip, as "ultimate freedom". It would seem that this largely represents, to him, freedom from other people's rules and authority over him. Throughout his whole life he finds authority particuarly oppressive, especially when exercised by anyone who feels only has such power over him. To live completely alone, in a world where the only laws he feels the need to follow are those of nature, is to him ultimate freedom.<span />
