I believe the answer would be theme
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Answer is D Why does the speaker put "cruelties" in quotation marks? because it describes the alleged cruelties
<span>The ‘Watching the World from the Riverbank’, is trying to send the readers or communicate through the readers by having them to know about the world and how reality runs in every society or in the world that we live in and by that, it is trying to focus on the rules of reality in which is the main focus in the story. The correct answer is letter b.</span>