Which writing best describes how Esperanza responds to this event?
And the last word was friends

Esperanza is so discouraged after hearing the laughter of the women that she drops her broom and runs back to the cabin. However, after an encouraging talk with her brother, Esperanza feels the courage to try again.

Explanation:

Lucia is writing about an event in Esperanza Rising. She hadn't noticed that several trucks were already unloading workers nearby. Then she heard it. First a small tittering and then louder. She turned around. A group of women were laughing at her. And in the middle of the group was Marta, pointing. "¡La Cenicienta! Cinderella!" she laughed.

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.

i would believe it would be b., the author wants to draw the reader deeper into the experience