Read the excerpt from my story. she took me up a flight of stairs (the cells were on the second level), through a door covered with iron mesh, and along a dimly lighted corridor. she placed me in an empty dark cell and slammed the door closed. she walked a few steps away, but then she turned around and came back. she said, "there are two girls around the other side, and if you want to go over there with them instead of being in a cell by yourself, i will take you over there.” i told her that it didn’t matter, but she said, "let’s go around there, and then you won’t have to be in a cell alone.” it was her way of being nice. it didn’t make me feel any better. how does rosa parks the reader understand her emotions in this excerpt? a. by describing in detail the order of what happened to her b. by comparing her feelings to those of other prisoners she met c. by sharing the exact dimensions of the prison cell she was put in d. by explaining how her feelings were expressed as pain in her body

A. by describing in detail the order of what happened to her
       
This is the correct answer because Rosa Parks is "showing, not telling." This means that Rosa Parks is helping the reader imagine being in her shoes by providing lots of sensory details and descriptions so the reader can pretend that he/she is experiencing the same thing. The word choices she uses help, too: "dimly lighted corridor" - you can picture yourself squinting your eyes closed and trying to see - "slammed the door shut" - you can feel yourself tense and wince imagining the sound of the metal clanging on the metal. Everything she describes makes the prison feel very rigid, very unwelcoming, and very isolating. The woman taking her to her cell, and then offering to move her closer to the other women, provides a moment of humanity in the midst of this isolating and uncomfortable experience. As the reader, you feel some relief, too, because by this part of the description, you didn't want to be alone in that cell, either!