Claudine at School is a 1900 novel by Colette, originally written in French. The narrator is a fifteen-year-old girl living in a small, rural town. She presents herself as having a strong emotional attachment to the surrounding forests:
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easyWhich quotation from a translation of most effectively Claudine at School illustrates the claim?
A
“And then there are my favourites, the great woods that are sixteen and twenty years old. It makes my heart bleed to see one of those cut down.”
B
“I heard a wolf once, at the beginning of winter, while I was picking up beech-nuts—those nice, oily little beech-nuts that tickle your throat and make you cough.”
C
“Green meadows make rifts in [the woods] here and there, so do little patches of cultivation. But these do not amount to much, for the magnificent woods devour everything. As a result, this lovely region is atrociously poor and its few scattered farms provide just the requisite number of red roofs to set off the velvety green of the woods.”
D
“Montigny ‘built in tiers’? No, that’s not how I see it; to my mind, the houses just tumble haphazard from the top of the hill to the bottom of the valley.”