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Life Among the Paiutes is an 1882 autobiographical narrative by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. In the work, Winnemucca creates suspense by emphasizing her physical response to an event, writing,       
Which quotation from Life Among the Paiutes most effectively illustrates the claim?
"Oh, how my heart jumped when I heard a noise close by. It was a horse running towards us. We had to lie down close to the ground. It came close to us and stopped. Oh, how my heart beat! I thought whoever it was would hear my heart beat."
A
"Oh, how happy everybody was! One could hear laughter everywhere, and songs were sung by happy women and children."
B
"Late in that fall, there came news that my grandfather was on his way home. Then my father took a great many of his men and went to meet his father, and there came back a runner, saying, that all our people must come together."
C
"That same fall, after my grandfather came home, he told my father to take charge of his people and hold the tribe, as he was going back to California with as many of his people as he could get to go with him."
D