What does the lighthouse in the text figuratively do in the following line: "'Sail on!' it says, 'sail on, ye stately ships'"

A: guide the ships and sailor

B: welcome home the ships and sailor

C: provide a map for the ships and sailor

D: all of the above

d: all of the above

Explanation:

closer examination, however, finds the mcdonald's kind of job highly uneducational in several ways. far from providing opportunities for entrepreneurship (the lemonade stand) or self- discipline, self-supervision, and self-scheduling (the paper route), most teen jobs these days are highly structured — what social scientists call “highly routinized.”  

true, you still have to have the gumption to get yourself over to the hamburger stand, but once you don the prescribed uniform, your task is spelled out in minute detail.  

which statement best expresses the theme of this short story the value of being confused