Which of these sentences best summarizes the passage below (paragraphs 13-16)? We soon heard his heavy breathing in the long entrance way. "It's moonlight, just like
day!" he exclaimed, as he set the kettles down and thrust his
cold hands into the flames with a twisting motion "The boys and girls are having lots of fun sliding on the ice."
Let them slide, we don't care ejaculated Wa-cu-pa as he dipped a cup into the water and handed it to the old man, who put it to his lips and
made a gulping sound as he drank, the lump in his throat leaping up and down at each swallow. At the last draught, he expelled his pent-up
breath with something like a groan, set the cup down, wiped his lips with the back of his hand, and asked, "A real true story - something that I
saw myself, that's what you want, is it?"
Yes, grandfather," we sang out in chorus. "A story that has you in it!"
His face brightened with a smile and he broke into a gentle laugh, nodding his head to its rhythm.
A The old man had a hard time telling his tale and needed a drink.
B. The old man made up a story to please his listeners
The old man didn't want to tell a story about himself, despite everyone asking.
D. The group had a sincere interest in hearing the old man's tale.

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the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.