Its not about the gender if you are a victim of violence. A male or female can be the one abusing someone physically, emotionally, or sexually. Two specific reasons is if you are a person of color and if you are gay, lesbian, or transgender.
I’m pretty sure it would be C
A) The speakers desire to cure the raven of its inability to say anything other then nevermore. I think.
They advertise the pros and how it would be affect to the consumer