The correct answer is C, due to the fact that Buck's life and emotions are very similar to humans, as Buck's life is an allegory of human lives.
I believe the speaker in this work of art comes to realize that D) His father has led an extremely admirable life.
It's deff irony. Fortunato implies "fortunate" which and the end of the story ... he is most certainly not
Bro it rlly ain’t that hard
It is a gerund. If we added the preposition 'by' like, 'by sprinting the gazelle outran...', we'd know better that prepositions, the case with 'by' for instance, went with gerunds.
