6. Which detail from the text best supports the idea that Garner's decision to kill her daughter
came from her great love for her?
[RI 1.1]
A. "Margaret Garner, seeing that their hopes of freedom were vain seized a
butcher knife that lay on the table, and with one stroke cut the throat of her
little daughter, whom she probably loved the best." (Paragraph 3)
B. "She then attempted to take the life of the other children and to kill herself, but
she was overpowered and hampered before she could complete her desperate
work." (Paragraph 3)
C. "Margaret seemed to have a different nature; she could see nothing but woe for
herself and her children." (Paragraph 10)
D. "Her sorrow was beyond the reach of any words of encouragement and
consolation, and can be realized in all its fullness only by those who have tasted
of a cup equally bitter." (Paragraph 10)