1 Select the correct text in the passage.
Which quotation best demonstrates how a character's dialogue conveys a theme about the dangers of isolation?
adapted from Captain Littlepage
by Sarah Orne Jewett
"It was a hard life at sea in those days, I am sure," I said.
"It was a dog's life," said the poor old gentleman, "but it made men of those who followed it I see a change for the worse even in our own
town here; full of loafers now. I view it that a community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and
gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled newspaper. In the old days, a good part of the best men here knew a
hundred ports of something of the way folks lived in them. Shipping's a terrible loss to this part of New England from a social point of view,
ma'am."
"It accounts for the change in a great many things,--the sad disappearance of sea-captains, -doesn't it?"
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