In marigolds, which passage from the text best supports the author’s theme that people need to find small pleasures to give them hop when life becomes too difficult to endure? a) “innocence involves an unseeing acceptance of things at face value, an ignorance of the area below the surface.” b) “the witch was no longer a witch but only a broken old woman who had dared to create beauty in the midst of ugliness and sterility.” c) “the years have taken me worlds away from that time and that ” d) “for one does not have to be ignorant and poor to find that his life is as barren as the dusty yards of our town. and i too have planted marigolds.”

b) “The witch was no longer a witch but only a broken old woman who had dared to create beauty in the midst of ugliness and sterility.”

Explanation:

In Eugenia Collier's short story "Marigolds," the storyteller Lizabeth reviews a difficult minute in her youth when she quit being a kid; she recollects when honesty finished for her and sympathy had its spot—for she noticed that these things can't consume a similar space at the equivalent time...when empathy goes into one's life, blamelessness can no longer remain.  

Lizabeth and her more youthful sibling Joey are the main youngsters in their family as yet living at home amid the Great Depression of the 1930s. While work was very troublesome for white men to discover amid this time, getting work was almost incomprehensible for a dark man. Every morning Lizabeth's folks abandon: her mom heading off to her residential activity and her dad to search for work.

the underlined phrase is an example of : understatment