During the Middle Ages, walls often surrounded the cities. Linking verb
Well, from the realistic novels I've read - if they're real, their called memiors, by the way - then most of the books end with the character coming to a nice end after a lot of struggles, or, they don't have much good to look forward to in life.
As an example, look at "Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah"
So... I would say (a) or (b)
