This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.
~ Chapter 2
Answer:A. Hardship can motivate people to make ruthless, calculating decisions.
Explanation:
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The people seeked refuge after their homeland had been torn apart by war
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I don’t enjoy reading horror coz I get scared
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I'm assuming you mean tropes, and it's because the original story tellers used three, leading to story tellers after that to copy them and use the rule of three, and so it just became a normal thing.