Question

Select the excerpt from The Weeping Willow that develops the theme.

"Unfortunately for them, the old man was really a magician, and in a twinkling
had turned nine of the girls into tall slender trees, drooping along the river bank."
"The polite daughter ran crying to her parents and told them what had
happened."
"Sorrowfully, the parents sent their only daughter to live in a faraway land for
fear of the magician, but they themselves dwell in tears beneath the drooping
trees forever."
"There were ten beautiful girls belonging to one family."

Answer 1

Answer: First one

Unfortunately for them, the old man was really a magician, and in a twinkling

had turned nine of the girls into tall slender trees, drooping along the river bank.