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alexandra reached home in the afternoon. that evening she held a family council and told her brothers all that she had seen and heard.
\i want you boys to go down yourselves and look it over. nothing will convince you like seeing with your own eyes. the river land was settled before this, and so they are a few years ahead of us, and have learned more about farming. the land sells for three times as much as this, but in five years we will double it. the rich men down there own all the best land, and they are buying all they can get. the thing to do is to sell our cattle and what little old corn we have, and buy the linstrum place. then the next thing to do is to take out two loans on our half-sections, and buy peter crows place; raise every dollar we can, and buy every acre we can.\
lou held his head as if it were splitting. \everybody will say we
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oscar shook his head. no, i can see theres a chance that way. ive thought a good while there might be. were in so deep now, we might as well go deeper. but its hard work pulling out of debt. like pulling a threshing-machine out of the mud; breaks your back. me and lous worked hard, and i cant see its got us ahead much. (paragraph 9)
what does the simile \like pulling a threshing-machine out of the mud; breaks your back\ mostly suggest about getting out of debt?
□ it requires grueling effort.
□ it is sometimes impossible.
□ it is inevitable.
□ it requires problem solving.
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Explanation:

The simile compares getting out of debt to pulling a heavy threshing-machine out of mud, which is explicitly stated to "break your back"—a phrase that conveys extreme, exhausting physical effort. This directly aligns with the idea of grueling work, not impossibility, inevitability, or problem-solving.

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It requires grueling effort.