Question

In the story Little Women, one family brings breakfast to another on Christmas morning. Read this passage and then answer the question that follows: A poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm. How the big eyes stared and the blue lips smiled as the girls went in. "Ach, mein Gott! It is good angels come to us!" said the poor woman, crying for joy. What implicit meaning can you find about the sick woman and her children from this text?(5 points) Group of answer choices The mother did not know how to start a fire. The mother's illness made her children hate her. The mother was unable to provide for their needs. The mother and children lived in an abandoned building.

Answer 1

The mother was unable to provide for their needs.

Step-by-step explanation:

Based on the given excerpt, we can conclude that the mother was unable to provide for hers and her children's needs. They live in a room that seems like it may be located in an abandoned building (but doesn't have to be, and where they live is not the main point of the excerpt), they are hungry and cold. When the other family brought them breakfast, they saw them as literal angels coming to help them. The need for food is the most basic need, and they didn't even have that on Christmas morning.

There are no details that prove that the mother didn't know how to start the fire or that her children hate her.

Thus, the correct option is the third one.