Read the excerpt from Pink and Say. “No, no, my babies…my dear babies!” she cried. She was inconsolable for a time, then she sat still and afeared as she just listened.

“Mother, this war has to be won or this sickness that has taken our land will never stop.” Pink always called slavery “the sickness” when we talked. “We have to go.” He knelt at her feet.

By the look that came into her eyes, she’d known that this day was comin.’

I could feel my breathin’ catch. My chest was heavy.

Why does the author most likely include this excerpt in the story?

She shares Pink’s belief that the practice of slavery is spreading.

Unlike Moe Moe Bay, the author knows that war is a part of life.

Like Pink, she believes that slavery is very harmful to society.

She feels that Moe Moe Bay should do more to keep her son safe.