Which description of carter druse from ambrose bierce’s “a horseman in the sky” is most accurate?

a. carter is young and unaware of what he wants from life. he uses his family values as a crutch to avoid deciding on the path that he wants to pursue.

b. carter is a spoiled and ignorant brat. he joins the army because he wants to anger and defy his family. he is also quite a selfish and unreliable young man.

c. carter joins the union army partly because he wants to shirk his family responsibilities. however, he soon matures and never evades his military duties, even at a personal cost.

d. carter grew up in the state of virginia. however, he chooses to join the union army. while he defies everything his family and state stand for, he carves his own identity through this choice.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky