Answer:
B. The necessity of hope for survival
Explanation:
The theme that can be gotten from this excerpt is The necessity of hope for survival because, from the excerpt, there is a feeling of desire and want that is embedded in human nature and it cannot be silenced.
This desire may be described as having hope which in turn makes individuals throw caution to the wind, in a bid to survive.
The 4th century Phocis was constantly endangered by its Boeotian neighbors.
<em>In the course of my explorations twenty-five years ago,</em><em> </em>I found five sawmills located on or near the lower margin of the Sequoia belt, all of which were cutting more or less Big Tree lumber, which looks like the redwood of the coast, and was sold as redwood. <u>One of the smallest of these mills in the season of 1874 sawed two million feet of Sequoia lumber.</u>
Which statement best describes the point Muir is making in the passage?
<u>Which detail appeals to the reader’s logic?</u>
<em>Which detail establishes credibility?</em>
It was all a guess.
The answers go by how I labeled the questions. (1st is bolded in the passage, second is underlined, third is italicized)
Hope I helped anyway...
