The news paper aided the growth of Los Angeles from a wasteland to a metropolitan city.
The purpose is to inform.
It is not even clear what the author would be selling. Also, they're not trying to entertain or persuade; there is no indication of this; so the best answer is "to inform".
Answer:
Distraction as a way of survival
Explanation:
The narrator speaks about how difficult is to keep on living watching all the survivors around her. Because she's seen death, but what strikes her completely is the living, so she says her "one saving grace is distraction", so she focuses on colors, and other details so as not to think about the destruction that suffocates her.
I think you can tell the answer is odd because the multipliers are odd.
Choice a : Explains what the nations need to do and elaborates some.
--wrong answers--
Choice b only gives a statement of what the nations need to do.
Choice c is a question.