Which of the following is an example of the effect that dwarvish culture has on the story?

a. bilbo and thorin become friends when thorin is dying because thorin feels sorry for bilbo.

b. despite the danger and difficulties, the dwarves set out on their quest is to recover the hoard, based on their sense of honor.

c. bilbo rescues the dwarves from the spiders despite the dwarves' lack of bravery.

d. since dwarves are known as timid, they doubt whether they should try to regain their treasure.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.