A. he
take away the "my classmates" and whichever choice makes sense is the correct pronoun
In order to offer a shortened, abridged version of the original passage. This allows audiences to get a general impression of the passage without reading the entire thing.
I think the last is the answer "Thier houses are filled with an undigested mass if thing" because I feel that this is an example of being tied to things even in your own home and she even goes into how it can be suffocating, which I think also is another example connected to this one of being tied.