In which excerpt from harriet tubman: conductor on the underground railroad is tubman using pathos? “she tried to explain to them why none of them could go back to the plantation. if a runaway returned, he would turn traitor, the master and the overseer would force him to turn traitor.” “then she told them of her own first vain effort at running away, evoking the memory of that miserable life she had led as a child, reliving it for a moment in the telling.” “she started talking about william still and the philadelphia vigilance committee. no one commented. no one asked any questions. she told them the story of william and ellen craft and how they escaped from georgia.” “she said that he had thick white hair, soft, almost like a baby's, and the kindest eyes she had ever seen. he was a big man and strong, but he had never used his strength to harm anyone, always to people.”

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.