Humans are vulnerable to the forces of nature. which description is an example of a conflict and resolution that best supports this theme?
a. ginger and steve were walking in the park when it started drizzling snow. they decided to call it a night.
b. ginger and steve fell in love when they met while camping in alaska. unfortunately, ginger lived in a different country, so they decided not to date.
c. steve wanted to ask ginger to marry him, but before he could, ginger asked rick to marry her. steve realized that he and ginger would never be together.
d. ginger and steve got lost while camping in alaska. although ginger survived, steve was killed by the extreme cold.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.