Read this excerpt from little women. by and by beth said, with recovered serenity, "you'll tell them this when we go home? " "i think they will see it without words," sighed jo, for now, it seemed to her that beth changed every day. this passage best infers that: (a) beth is afraid to tell her family of her illness. (b) jo is expected to care for beth in her last days. (c) beth’s poor health has been obvious, but the marches have been blind because they don’t want to admit it. (d) beth may survive the effects of the illness.

(A) Beth is afraid to tell her family of her illness.

edmund spenser and john bunyan also influenced hawthorne. : )

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innocence can be defined as the lack of sin, relating it with the lack of guilt, also it can be a synonime of naivety. most people agree that sins are made out of experiences, intentionally or not, as well as you stop being naive once certain things happen to you throughout your life. so, with this explained, the chosen answers are:

when the boy saw the effects of war, he no longer viewed life as innocent.

the loss of innocence is a result of gaining experience and making mistakes.

one way to define innocence is as a lack of worldly experience or sophistication.