Which sentence best states the authors' claim?
even though one book after another repeats this myth,
the popularity of spices had nothing to do with disguising
the taste of meat or fish that had gone bad. any lord who
could afford spices (which were expensive) could easily
get fresh meat or fish (which were readily available); and
when a cook happened to be stuck with rancid food, the
spices he had available could not hide the awful smell or
taste. whenever they could, people used the spices that
were so popular, they became an expensive necessity:
pepper, ginger, sugar, sometimes saffron. only the very
rich could afford the luxuries-such as ambergris (which
is coughed up by whales and offers a strange, perfumy
taste of the sea).
-sugar changed the world,
marc aronson and marina budhos
spices could not mask the smell and taste of rotten
meat
only the very wealthy were able to buy most
available spices.
some spices were important enough that everyone
used them.
the popularity of spices was not related to masking
spoiled food

D. The popularity of spices was not related to masking spoiled food.

c, his tragic flaw to cause his downfall

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).