Its to communicate with the enslaved people who are going to leave with her :)
Answer:
c. Some people think they can tame deer, but I just don’t buy it.
Explanation:
A paper with an academic voice is characterized for featuring a formal language as well as impersonal and reasonable statements based on evidence. It is also free of idioms, slang or expressions that one would normally use with friends or in informal settings. The expression in option C: “I just don't buy it” is too informal and personal to be part of an informational academic paper, and thus, it should be revised.
I would go with C. Because the narrator is talking. The narrator want to have a lesson badly on water-reading. But Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is far to advanced for it and will not teach her it. So Mr. Bixby is being stubborn and will not give the lesson.
In the spring of 1846, a group of nearly 90 emigrants left Springfield, Illinois, and headed west. Led by brothers Jacob and George Donner, the group attempted to take a new and supposedly shorter route to California