Which sentence best demonstrates the hostile relationship that scrooge has with society at the beginning of a christmas carol?

a.
"becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark forever."

b.
"no beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of scrooge."

c.
"it was cold, bleak, biting weather, foggy withal, and he could hear the people in the court go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them."

d.
"a frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin."

Hey student is writing a conclusion for his research based informative essay on the possibility of exploring and having mars where should he including his conclusion select two options

On november 17, 1968, football fans across the united states sat glued to their televisions. a close game between two top teams—the new york jets and the oakland raiders—was being broadcast. when the jets pulled ahead with only fifty seconds remaining, viewers went wild. but then, just as the raiders were bringing the ball across midfield, the game disappeared from the screen! in its place, a previously scheduled children's movie, heidi, started playing. callers flooded the tv network's phone lines, but it was too late. the raiders scored two touchdowns in the very final moments—touchdowns that were unseen by all but west coast viewers. as a result of the interrupted event, dubbed "the heidi game," television networks began delaying their regularly scheduled programs until football games had ended.

The true confessions of charlotte doyle and "jonah and the whale" have which theme in common?