Answer:
B. Depressing
Explanation:
In the excerpt, the narrator is giving information about the previous and new place in which the characters are placed, and the general idea is that they were used to see property abandoned and dead animals (certainly not a very nice image). But, in this new place everything gets worse, and it turns out to be disturbing for the characters.
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I became, in short, the gangling farmer-boy my aunt had known, C. Scourged with chilblains and bashfulness, my hands cracked and raw from corn husking.
Scourge is something that causes suffering.</span>
