7zeitoun’s heart was thrumming. they saw no civilians, no hospital or humanitarian-aid workers, as had been common in areas like the napoleon–st. charles staging ground. this was different. this was entirely martial, and the mood was tense. zeitoun is considering the geography of the flood-ravaged city. the neighbors he should enlist for . the hostile nature of his internment. the lack of resources available for flood victims.

C) The hostile nature of his internment.

Explanation: In the given excerpt from "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers, we can see the description of the environment Zeitoun was in, he says that there were no civilians, or hospitals, or humanitarian-aid workers. According to his description, we can say that Zeitoun is considering the hostile nature of his internment, so the correct answer is the corresponding to option C.

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.