“We'll get this whole place as tight as a barrel, Mama. I already met a guy who told me where to they pile all the scrap lumber.”

What, most likely, is the author's intent in this passage?
A. to characterize her older brother Woody as a resourceful family leader
B. to show the extent to which her family feels abandoned by their father
C. to illustrate the cruelty of the camp's supervisors
D. to elicit the reader's pity for the family's plight