Which sentence in the passage best shows how the setting contributes to the narrator’s feeling about the future?
a: we had our swim before sundown, and while we were cooking our supper the oblique rays of light made a dazzling glare on the white sand about us.

b: .it was not in the thicket of dancing willow wands, but on the level terrace of fine sand which had been added that spring.

c: .i was already homesick at the thought of quitting the boys with whom i had always played; of leaving the river, and going up into a windy plain that was all windmills and cornfields and big pastures; where there was nothing willful or unmanageable in the landscape, no new islands, and no chance of unfamiliar birds—such as often followed the watercourses.

d: the hassler boys wanted to see the stockyards in kansas city, and percy wanted to see a big store in chicago.