Read the excerpt from free the children.
"school," i had asked him, "would you like to go to school? " "what is school? what is it like? what do people do there? " "what do you hope for the future? " i said. "i will do the same job. i will work to pay the debt. i will work to eat. one day i will take a loan from the owner. my children will have to pay."

why does the author most likely include this interaction?
a. to emphasize the generational cycle of debt slavery
b. to highlight how iqbal’s work people
c. to show why iqbal was targeted for his work
d. to illustrate how people escape from debt slavery

Which sentence from the text best develops the theme about the importance of compassion for other people? "besides, he was the only person in the whole place with skin nearly as dark as hers." "at first she wanted to intern at her dad's gas station, but her teacher told her she needed to branch out and signed michelle up at the oakcourt nursing home, only 15 minutes away from her house." "still, michelle had been curious, and she felt sorry that erkan had a bad reputation among the staff." "she too had felt like everyone mistrusted her--especially at the nursing home where she was so much younger than the rest of the staff--so she understood how he must feel."