Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of the scarlet letter using comprehension strategies.

but, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of june, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of nature could pity and be kind to him.

what is the meaning of this excerpt?
a) puritans plant a rosebush near the prison to comfort criminals.
b) the rosebush is more beautiful and fragile than anything else near the prison.
c) the rosebush is nature’s offering to those who must enter or leave the prison.
d) puritans believe that criminals deserve a view of beauty from their cells.

the support that the author, uses in the article facing our fears is a): a definition of the part of the brain called the amygdala.

he takes neuroscientist joseph ledoux's words by telling that by falling to distinguish between evolutionary old systems located in the amygdala and newer systems, centered in the prefrontal cortex, doctors have conflated non conscious threat circuits in the brain with circuits that underlie the conscious experience of fear. that, the author says, "leads ledoux to the jarring conclusion that the amygdala, a decades-old centerpiece of the brain's fear circuit, does not underlie the conscious feeling of fear".

despite this, the author points out in the article that that is a controversial notion and that evidence, in animal and humans, supports the idea that core emotions can exist outside of conscious awareness.

not sure but i think it’s the snug nest