When an author carefully chooses her words, she is using Diction. Diction are emotionally-charged words which the author chose herself
The answer is b his effort to fight oppression without violence
which he did throughout his whole life while fighting against
With no money in his pocket, Santiago earns something to eat by helping a candy seller set up his market stall. Afterward, he realizes he was able to communicate perfectly with the candy maker even though the man spoke only in Arabic. Santiago thinks there must be a universal language that does not depend on words. He remembers how he had communicated wordlessly with his sheep and thinks, "Now it's happening with people."
