Which sentence from the excerpt best demonstrates the
author's reason for writing?
"then pau amma thought a little and said, 'i have
made my choice. i will take all the gifts."
“then the eldest magician made a magic with the right
hand, with all five fingers of his right hand, and lo and
behold, best beloved, pau amma grew smaller and
smaller and smaller, till at last there was only a little
green crab swimming in the water alongside the canoe,
crying in a very small voice, 'give me the scissors! ""
“and the girl-dalighter picked him up on the palm of her
little brown hand, and sat him in the bottom of the
canoe and gave him her scissors, and he waved them
in his little arms, and opened them and shut them and
snapped them, and said, i can eat nuts.''
"i can breathe in the dry air, and i can find a safe
pusat tasek under every stone.""