What is the purpose of stage directions?
to provide comic relief after various pivotal and tense moments in a play and lighten the mood of the audience
to set up the backdrop of a play by providing background information on the characters
to break a play down into multiple scenes according to changes in locations
to describe details about where a scene takes place and how an actor must deliver his or her lines

Me i will give brainiest which excerpt from the passage most effectively contributes to the development of the theme that the bond between fathers and daughters is sacred and everlasting? '"may i not see the little one, sir, for a moment? ' it was his belief that mini was still the same." "i remembered the day when the cabuliwallah and my mini had first met, and i felt sad. when she had gone, rahmun heaved a deep sigh, and sat down on the floor." "this touch of his own little daughter had been always on his heart, as he had come year after year to calcutta to sell his wares in the streets." "he came close up to me holding out his offerings with the words: 'i brought these few things, sir, for the little one. will you give them to her? "'