"It was as simple as that. Once he had yearned for choice. then, when he had had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving. But if he had stayed... His thoughts continued. If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love." pahe number

The above passage is a quote from the book "The Giver".

Explanation:

The passage conveys the message that our choices have consequences and that we must choose those that are true to our truths and our convictions.

This passage refers to how Jonas, the protagonist of the book, decided to abandon the perfect and utopian society in which he lived, because that society left him empty, without feelings. When leaving the city, Jonas goes through difficulties such as hunger and cold, however, if he had stayed in the city, the needs would be more but they would still exist and would be even more comfortable, because they are needs of the soul.

the answer is:

d. a story that frightened readers so much they would become suspicious of their surroundings

frankenstein is one of the terror novels wrote by the writers in a sort of bet, lord byron challenged them all to write a ghost story, and the story came to mary shelley in a dream, she wanted to conect with the fears of her society, fears of technology and changes, and she wanted readers to look around, freightened.

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