The author's memory of the events from his childhood in "Living to Tell the Tale" are triggered by seeing the mother and sister of the thief bringing flowers to the grave.

Living to tell the tale in this content means he may have been the one killed and he won't have the opportunity to tell people what happened and how he survived.

Explanation:

He wasn't dead or being the one killed so he is alive to tell people his experience.

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .

my best guess would be: d allusion

makes the most sense