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"The Selfish Giant" is an 1888 short story by Oscar Wilde. In the story, a group of children play in a local garden after school. The children appreciate the garden because it allows them to experience nature.
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Which quotation from "The Selfish Giant" most effectively illustrates the underlined claim?
"The poor children had now nowhere to play. They tried to play on the road, but the road was very dusty and full of hard stones, and they did not like it."
A
"The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. 'How happy we are here!' they cried to each other."
B
"Then the Spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds. Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still winter."
C
"My own garden is my own garden, said the Giant; 'any one can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it but myself' So he built a high wallall round it, and put up a notice-board."
D