Which excerpt from "The Evacuation" is the best example of the author's personal theme during her evacuation to Cornwall? Can you imagine people doing that today--parents allowing their children to be taken to a strange place, to live with unknown people?
They expected us to be dirty, full of lice, and crude. (You know, to be honest, some of us were, but still, we were just kids!)
I kept telling myself, "Pull yourself together, pull yourself together," so I wouldn't cry.
"We's together. Where she goes, I go, 'cos she's my sis and you can’t separate us."

It will be through raising high the prestige of your administration by success in short-range recovery, that you will have the driving force to accomplish long-range reform. on the other hand, even wise and necessary reform may, in some respects, impede and complicate recovery. what is the purpose of the transitional phrase on the other hand in this excerpt? a) it provides a counter-argument to the writer's main ideas. b) it provides a hypothetical situation for the reader to ponder. c) it provides additional evidence in favor of the writer's argument. d) it provides information about laws that are opposed to the writer's argument.