Answer:
B) The following essay describes how popular horror novelist Stephen King, author of Carrie, Misery, and The Shining, built a successful career as a full-time author.
Explanation:
A thesis statement is one sentence that expresses the main idea in summarized specific points. Thus; the listing format, and statement made is a thesis statement.
The sentence in the excerpt from leo Tolstoy's the death of ivan Ilyich that shows that ivan Ilyich's son is still innocent and uncorrupted despite the people around him is : Following him, the schoolboy crept in unnoticed, in a new uniform, poor little fellow, and wearing gloves.
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