The answer to your question would be option B. Both have yearned to escape the environment they experienced as a child.
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The web would be the direct object, because the direct of a sentence receives the action of the verb.
The man in the water dies.
Because he keeps handing the life raft that is lowered down (to him and the other people clinging to the tail section of the plane) off to other people, he misses his chance for survival. He remains anonymous and heroic, giving his own life so that the other people he was near could be rescued and survive.