Visiting his mother would be so cold he couldn’t talk to her.
        
             
        
        
        
Hi there,
the answer to this would be B serious.
I think this is because the way they describe the Black Snake it look like its serious all the time. If you look back at your poem you will see context clues about the story and the characteristics of the Black Snake.
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The correct answer is letter C.
The central theme of Stephen Crane's work is about the cruelty of war. It talked about characters that were unable to exercise free will because their actions were forced by the circumstances presented to them during the war. Human suffering was an apparent situation that Crane emphasized in his work.