Read the excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes.” Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying, "Everything's going to be alright," "We're doing the best we can," and "It's not the end of the world." But I don't think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities?

The purpose of Suzuki’s question is to challenge listeners to

think of how their actions affect their children.
think of new sayings to comfort their children.
spend more quality time with their children.
spend more time comforting their children.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.