Which sentence best describes the above theme of the essay?
A. “At that age I was not squeamish about killing animals, but I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to.”
B. “He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of the sahib.”
C. “I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.”
D. “I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys.”