your answer would be C. "A person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow…as far as I can see."
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I means that freedom comes at a cost. You have to fight for it. In order for the US to win freedom from Britain we went into war, people lives were lost, but we earned out freedom.
Imply is not a reading strategy
In the Gift of the Magi, both the husband and wife sell off something important to them. Little did they know, they got the other a special gift that would go with what they sold off. So i think the answer would be B. She loves her husband enough to give him a costly gift.