Answer:
I think that the theme that best represents the given excerpt is suffering as a way of life. The excerpt hints that everyone always seeks to want more, starting from birth until one's death bed. And with their continuous search for their wants, they suffer since they are never satisfied with what they have. Thus, suffering becomes a way of life.
Explanation:
..."but she was still woozy from the opiate her captors used to drug her."
"She didn't dally because the guards would be searching for her in a matter of minutes."
"Alex gorged herself on a bag lunch that one of the guards had left unattended near her cell."
"Seconds later, she began looking for the antiquated truck that the guards had used to transport her to the compound."
"...but she had to make it out of the jungle before she could expose the kingpin's felonious operation to the public."
The correct answer is C. Everyone in the community helps take care of Shadow.
Explanation
The text fragment is an allusion to a dog named Shadow, the dog of a neighborhood, this means that he does not have a single owner within the neighborhood. Therefore, it is possible to affirm that by belonging to the neighborhood all the inhabitants of that neighborhood help take care of Shadow because he is the pet of all the people who live there. So the correct answer is C.Everyone in the community helps take care of Shadow.
