I Believe it is C, Noun clause
In To Kill a Mockingbird<span>, Scout narrates the tragic story of Tom Robinson's trial and the hypocrisy in Maycomb County. Injustice and bigotry define many of the people in the town, despite the fact that Atticus presents Tom's case and proves his innocence.</span>
If the verb in the independent clause is in the present tense, the tense that the verb in the indirect quotation should be is <span>remain in its original tense.
</span>You don't have to shift tenses because it is present in the independent one.
For example:
He says: "I need to wash my hair."
He says that he needs to wash his hair.
You wouldn't say - he says that he needed to wash his hair.
