In living to tell the tale which statement from the excerpt most strongly shows that the narrator feels empathy toward the thief?

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In living to tell the tale which statement from the excerpt most strongly shows that the narrator feels empathy toward the thief?

a) "the town dignitaries came to maria consuegra’s house to offer her their condolences for having killed the thief.”

b) “i went that night with papalelo, and we found her sitting in an armchair from manila that looked like an enormous wicker peacock, surrounded by the fervor of her friends who listened to the story she had repeated a thousand times.”

c) “everyone agreed with her that she had fired out of sheer fright.”

d) “maria consuegra, it seemed, had not been conscious of this heart-breaking lament until my grandfather asked her the question.”

a) “the town dignitaries came to maria consuegra’s house to offer her their condolences for having killed the thief.”

Explanation:

Living to tell the tall is a fictional book written by the Colombian writer- Gabriel García Márquez, who created a magical world in which the characters are ruled by determination and ideas of honor, they reside in a region cut off in "solitude" from the rest of the planet, a region where the exception is part and parcel of the everyday.

Having the dignitaries come to counsegra's house to offer condolences for killing the thief shows that Maria counsegra had empathy towards the thief that was killed.

a) “the town dignitaries came to maria consuegra’s house to offer her their condolences for having killed the thief.”

Explanation:

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