What is most likely the author’s intent in the follow passage (paragraph 4) of living to tell the tale? “when we turned the corner, the dust burned my feet through the weave of my sandals. the feeling of being forsaken became unbearable. then i saw myself and i saw my mother, just as i saw, when i was a boy, the mother and sister of the third whom maria consuegra had killed with a single shot one week earlier, when he tried to break into her house.” a) to show that the narrator and his mother have a family in the small town that they have been isolated from. b) to show the difference between the narrators and the thief’s mother through a comparison c) to describe how the town they are traveling in is a deserted as it was in the narrators memories d) to show the narrator making the connection that he and his mother are abandoned like the thief’s family