The thing was, we had a little problem with the insect vector there, and believe me, your tamer stuff, your malathion and pyrethrum and the rest of the so-called environmentally safe products didn't begin to make a dent in it, not a dent, i mean it was utterly useless we might as well have been spraying with chanel number 5 for all the good it did. and you've got to realize these people were literally covered with insects day and night and the fact that they hardly wore any clothes just compounded the problem. picture if you can, gentlemen, a naked little two-year-old boy so black with flies and mosquitoes it looks like he's wearing long johns, or the young mother so racked with the malarial shakes she can't even lift a diet coke to her lips it was pathetic, just pathetic, like something out of the dark ages. . well, anyway, the decision was made to go with ddt in the short term, just to get the situation under control, you understand.
what part of the plot is the author most likely developing in this portion of the story?
a. exposition
b. rising action
c. conclusion
d. conflict