Which of the following sentences from the article BEST highlights the role of Sheila Washington in getting justice for the Scottsboro Boys? Question options:

"An old, thin paperback," she said Thursday of the book about nine boys who were black, like her. What she read changed her life.

These dark moments – finding the old book, her father's fear, her brother's death – hardened inside her as a young woman and she began work on a project on the Scottsboro Boys.

Along the way, she realized that civil rights leaders had abandoned the boys, she said.

She went before the Alabama parole board but was told there was no process for pardons after people had died, or posthumous pardons.

Read the quotation from "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." and now he became conscious of a new disturbance. striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality. he wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or near by—it seemed both. its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell. he awaited each stroke with impatience and—he knew not why—apprehension. the intervals of silence grew progressively longer, the delays became maddening. with their greater infrequency the sounds increased in strength and sharpness. they hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife; he feared he would shriek. what he heard was the ticking of his watch. which best describes the effect of the narration in the excerpt? it suggests that the man being executed feels tranquil and at peace. it suggests that the narrator is sympathetic to the man being executed. it suggests that the plot will become less tense as the story continues. it suggests that the story will become more intense and mysterious.