Read the excerpt from "civil peace” by chinua achebe.

as soon as the pound notes were placed in his palm jonathan simply closed it tight over them and buried fist and money inside his trouser pocket. he had to be extra careful because he had seen a man a couple of days earlier collapse into near-madness in an instant before that oceanic crowd because no sooner had he got his twenty pounds than some heartless ruffian picked it off him.

what effect does the setting have on jonathan’s actions?

a) he decides to spend the money quickly so he does not lose it on the way back home.

b) he is cautious with the money because people got robbed more often after the war.

c) he decides to give his money away to the man who lost his because he feels bad for him.

d) he is proud of having more money and lets other people know about it on his way home.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.