3. It struck me as just what a cowboy-out-west person would do: fear something and be kind to it at the same time.
Explanation:
According to the excerpt from "The Tarantulas of Pie Town" by Jennifer Owings Dewey, it is narrated that a new comer is startled when he discovers six Tarantulas swimming in a pool and makes contact with his leg. He is made fun of by the two workers close by when the incident occurred.
The sentence in the passage that best gets across the author’s message is:
3. It struck me as just what a cowboy-out-west person would do: fear something and be kind to it at the same time.
The author clearly describes what a light second is by including examples that her readers can relate to. She provides an example of how far a kid could run in a second and then shows just how much farther light can travel in the same time by describing the distance as "from Earth to the Moon."
