Which piece of textual evidence from the story "civil peace" defends best the analysis that the main protagonist, jonathan, is optimistic?
"'i count it as nothing,' he told his sympathizers, his eyes on the rope he was tying. 'what is egg rasher? did i depend on it last week? or is it greater than other things that went with the war? '"
"jonathan and his family were now completely paralysed by terror. maria and the children sobbed inaudibly like lost souls."
"he was normally a heavy sleeper but that night he heard all the neighborhood noises die down one after another."
"at first he went daily, then every other day and finally once a week, to the offices of the coal corporation where he used to be a miner, to find out what was what."

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hey u think u can me with a summary? ?

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.