In Living to Tell the Tale, which statement from the excerpt most strongly shows that the narrator feels empathy toward the thief

a) “the town dignitaries came to maria consuegra’s house to offer her their condolences for having killed the thief.” b) “i went that night with papalelo, and we found her sitting in an armchair from manila that looked like an enormous wicker peacock, surrounded by the fervor of her friends who listened to the story she had repeated a thousand times.” c) “everyone agreed with her that she had fired out of sheer fright.” d) “maria consuegra, it seemed, had not been conscious of this heart-breaking lament until my grandfather asked her the question.”

“the town dignitaries came to maria consuegra’s house to offer her their condolences for having killed the thief.”

Option A.

Explanation:

Living to Tell the Tale is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by Edith Gross man published in 2003.

The central story of Living to Tell the Tale is Gabriel García Marquez's journey with his mother to sell the home in which he had grown up. This journey sparks an outpouring of memories and initiates a theme of change—temporal, personal, and cultural—that pervades the book.

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