Which answer does the best job of explaining (and not just stating) a theme? The theme of this story is don't expect to make a lot of money if you won't go out and work for it.
The theme of the story is the effect of greed on how a person sees the world. The sons wanted gold so badly that they couldn't see how working hard could make them rich.
The theme of this story is greed and how bad it is. I agree that greed is a bad thing.
The theme of the story is how the three sons wouldn't listen to their father when he told them they should work hard to earn the money they wanted.

Read the quote from zimmermann in the code book. a future government could inherit a technology infrastructure that's optimized for surveillance, where they can watch the movements of their political opposition, every financial transaction, every communication, every bit of e-mail, every phone call. everything could be filtered and scanned and automatically recognized by voice recognition technology and transcribed. it's time for cryptography to step out of the shadows of spies and the military, and step into the sunshine and be embraced by the rest of us. which question does this paragraph answer? why does zimmermann think encryption is important? what kind of encryption did zimmermann invent? how does zimmermann’s encryption work? who made encryption based on zimmermann’s work?