"The sun was setting behind the mountain when Isaiah reached the first fields of crops, bordered by low white stone walls. At th
e end of the road was the village, built on a slope, whose houses sank with all their weight into the ground, as if in fear of sliding further down. Roofs of overlapping slates peered down on the tiny, lifeless windows. The tall wooden chimneys, shaped like truncated pyramids, smoked quietly in the evening. This place was the extreme point where men had dared to plant a shelter and sow the grain. But, on the rough, rocky soil, even the rye did not grow well. The old men died without having saved anything, and the young, one after the other, fled from this corner of bad earth that the snowfalls isolated from the world for six months of the year. Once prosperous and populated to the rim, the village now had barely eighteen fires. And above it there were only shelters lost in the mountains for summer climbers. " 1.This description allows us to identify the village of the two brothers as being mainly
a. An isolated high mountain village in which the inhabitants work hard and see their efforts rewarded.
b. A quiet high-altitude village in which many courageous young farmers live.
c. A village in total harmony with the wilderness that still can't feed its children.
d. A pleasant village in the heart of the rugged mountains that welcomes many climbers in summer.
