“HELP HIM UP!”: A WITNESS’S ACCOUNT OF PANIC ON A SUBWAY PLATFORM

PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

A
“It was Saturday afternoon, April 29. Everyone who came down the stairs to the train platform saw him, myself included, and everyone did the same thing. Watched him.” ( Paragraph 3)
B
“It is a very specific New York City preoccupation and plotline, a horror and a drama that grips the imagination and lays down a gut check.” ( Paragraph 8)
C
“He texted his girlfriend, ‘Guy fell so I had to jump on the tracks now I have a cut on my hand.’ He called his mother. Both were upset with him at first, ‘mad I jumped on the tracks in the first place,’ he said, but more thankful he was O. K.” ( Paragraph 32)
D
“Mr. Capuzzo said that before he jumped, he remembered an old public service announcement: ‘Twenty people are thinking someone else called about the gas leak.’” ( Paragraph 34)