Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 1.I loved my daddy. I loved my brothers too. But in the end it was Mitchell Thomas and I who were most like brothers, with a bond that couldn't be broken. The two of us came into Mississippi together by way of East Texas, and that was when we were still boys, long after we had come to our understanding of each other. Seeing that we were a long way from our Georgia home and both of us being strangers here in Mississippi, the two of us depended on each other and became as family.
Answer
A
“The two of us came into Mississippi together.”
B
“The two of us depended on each other and became as family.”
C
“Seeing that we were a long way from our Georgia home”
D
“I loved my daddy. I loved my brothers too.”
Explanation
The excerpt shows that the narrator and Mitchell became close because they relied on one another while they were far from home and strangers in Mississippi. The sentence “The two of us depended on each other and became as family” states this relationship directly. The other choices describe their travel or the narrator’s love for his biological family.
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