"around the country, people watched the scene in growing horror, as babies
and old people and diabetics and those worn out surviving the storm died on
live television for all to see."
which of these best explains why the sentence above contains opinion
instead of pure fact?
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a. the author doesn't say exactly how many people died on live
television
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b. it does not give a complete list of the types of people who died.
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c. it doesn't specify who was broadcasting these images.
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d. the author couldn't verify the horror of the people who were
watching

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.