Answer:
The main or central idea in a story is that story's theme
The correrct option is C.
Tell the audience that this point will be important.
- "listen here"
- "listen closely"
- "this is important"
- "i want you hear this"
- etc.
All of these sayings are ways to call out this point before you say it to say that this is really important.
I think the mood in the excerpt is shocked and somber.
They people are shocked by the swiftness of the sickness. They did not anticipate the grim outcome. This is because the patient is very young and should have a stronger immune system and she has been sick for only a few days.
"who was very young"
"She had been sick only a few days. No one expected her to die."
