Read the excerpt from free the children.

"he was crying and he was confused," said the translator.
i knew it could not have been all that liaqat had said, but we had no way of probing further.
"then what happened? " i asked.
"they were taken to the police station. they put their thumbs on a blank sheet of paper and were told to leave.”
which statement best describes a similarity in purpose between the frames and excerpt?
a. both persuade the reader that faryad and liaqat were responsible for iqbal’s death.

b. both entertain the reader with a story of a miscommunication between faryad and liaqat and the police officers.

c. both inform the reader that faryad and liaqat were not given the chance to tell their version of events at the police station.

d. both convince the reader to investigate what faryad and liaqat were prevented from saying.