In A Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri
PART A: Which statement best expresses a theme of the passage?
A. True suffering can be more painful than the idea of death.
B. It’s impossible to understand death if you haven’t seen it with your own eyes.
C. The love of our friends and family can give us strength when we have none left.
D. There are no winners in war, only death and destruction.

In A Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri , the statement which best expresses a theme of the passage is:

According to the given question, we are asked to show the statement which best expresses a theme of the passage in A Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri .

As a result of this, we can see that the author relieves the traumatic experience which he and so many experienced during the Nigerian Civil War, where lots of people died either from bullets or from starvation.

Therefore, the correct answer is option A

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A. True suffering can be more painful than the idea of death. This is a story narrated by a person who is experiencing the Nigerian Civil War, where he is in search of people - loved ones, relatives and friends, who may be killed by war or starvation.

Explanation:

It is one of those experiences that Ben Okri survived through, which mostly reflected in his works. Okri's version of a narrator who is trying to look out for people that matter to him and his surrounded beings, whether alive or dead, is the most hear-wrenching works that readers can read. The kind of expression, symbolism and prediction used by Okri to describe situations and attitudes of people makes us understand that this is a part of the world that we must always try to avoid and try to opt for peace.

The line from the passage, "The only people who weren't dead were the dead." - clearly states the theme where we must understand that after looking at the bodies of his family members, trying search for them and pour dust on their bodies laying in the sand with pieces of food in tehir hands is the most miserable thing a man can ever experience.

the answer is both an appeal to ethos and logos (if that's what your question options were)