Question

the spokane indian reservation twenty miles south for my first day of eighth - grade and my big brothers first day of eleventh grade in reardan, washington. my brother and i became the only spokane indians in the reardan school district, which was 99 percent white. we were brown kids in a sea of white kids inside an ocean of wheat fields. i made the decision on my own to leave wellpinit, but i dont remember why my big brother had followed my lead. he was a great basketball player, and reardan had a legendary sports program, so i can only assume he transferred for athletic reasons. he and i were brothers, but i think hed always been emotionally closer to his reservation indian friends and cousins than hed ever been to me, which explains why he dropped out of reardan before thanksgiving and returned to the rez school. i love my brother. and i didnt want to be alone in a white town. i didnt want to be the only one. so i almost followed him back to the rez. but then i didnt. because the thing you learn as a hugely ambitious indian is that youre often going to be the only indian in the room, youd better get used to it. a couple of weeks before school started, my mothers brother, leonard cox, had died of cirrhosis. he was a gregarious alcoholic and gave me one - dollar bills whenever he saw me. at the end, his belly was so distended and black that my mother said, he looked like an orca. so i walked into that new school with multiple griefs. as i lost my uncle, i had also outached myself from my tribe. i was terrified. and then it got worse. green walking path by ren wang (@rlg) is licensed under cc0. assessment questions 1. which statement best expresses a theme of the text? a. younger siblings tend to follow older siblings, even when they have different friends and interests. b. life - changing decisions are not often difficult to make but could lead to feelings of guilt later in life. c. the decision to make a life change is difficult and people may feel guilty for leaving a life or community behind. d. the loss of an immediate family member causes intense grief, leading to some people making life - changing decisions.

Explanation:

The text describes the narrator's move to a new school and the difficult decision - making process related to life changes, along with feelings of guilt about leaving. Option C best captures this theme as it mentions the difficulty of making life - changing decisions and potential guilt.

Answer:

C. The decision to make a life change is difficult and people may feel guilty for leaving a life or community behind.