Which sentence from the passage is the best example of the author's attempt to develop interest and engage his audience?
a) glass also forms naturally when lava bursts from a volcano and then cools.
b) it would then make sense that a natural byproduct of the fiery volcanic explosions is a glass formation called obsidian.
c) at one time or another, we have all pressed our hands against a window and looked through a pane of glass to view the world
d) whether formed naturally or through manufacturing, the most common way of making glass is to superheat silica or quartzite sand to its melting point.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.