Which of the following would be a good thesis statement for a compare and contrast essay?

d. football allowed the narrator and his father to reconnect after his parents' divorce.

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.

it is revealed by her ability to do what she needs to do