After reading the excerpt represented above, I would say that the most appropriate word that coincides with tone of the text is <span>Demands. At first : there is a business term called false demands, which is commonly used in economics/international relationships. And if in actually brings the negative meaning it couldn't be Refusals, (obviously -statements also can't be used and the same with argument as it should be in another context).
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A. It compares oranges to "golden mountains" to contrast wasted abundance and hungry people.
If it had to be the same answer the beginning because you don't introduce characters in the middle or end!!!
If it can be different then conflict would be middle and characters would be begging because a conflict is most likely to be in the middle: the most action packed part of the book.
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