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Together we stepped out to stand in silent contemplation of a
landscape at once weird and beautiful. Before us a low and level
shore stretched down to a silent sea. As far as the eye could reach
the surface of the water was dotted with countless tiny isles-some
of towering, barren, granitic rock-others resplendent in gorgeous
trappings of tropical vegetation, myriad starred with the
magnificent splendor of vivid blooms,
3 Behind us rose a dark and forbidding wood of giant arborescent
ferns intermingled with the commoner types of a primeval tropical
forest. Huge creepers depended in great loops from tree to tree,
dense under-brush overgrew a tangled mass of fallen trunks and
branches. Upon the outer verge we could see the same splendid
coloring of countless blossoms that glorified the islands, but within
the dense shadows all seemed dark and gloomy as the grave
Which MOST COMPLETELY analyzes this excerpt for a comment about
life?
A)
Beauty is kind and inviting,
B)
Nature is evil and forbidding.
C)
There is no risk in following beauty
D)
What appears beautiful can also be deadly