What theme is best revealed by this conflict?
it is easy to uphold morals when one is not suffering.
resourcefulness is all one needs to survive.
people can endure any suffering with teamwork.
rules are challenging to follow without a strong leader.

Which three sentences in this excerpt from arthur conan doyle's "the contest" suggest that the author's tone is mocking?

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Thomas paine's common sense convicted colonists to