Which excerpt from the text best supports the theme "one must persevere through hard times"? a. it wasn't his disreputable rags, nor the toes peeping out of one blue and one brown canvas shoes, nor yet the two stars of his rank done obviously in a hurry in biro, that troubled jonathan. b. so jonathan, suspecting he might be amenable to influence, rummaged in his raffia bag and produced the two pounds with which he had been going to buy firewood which his wife, maria, retailed to camp officials for extra stock-fish and corn meal, and got his bicycle back. c. this newest miracle was his little house in ogui overside. indeed nothing puzzles god! only two houses away a huge concrete edifice some wealthy contractor had put up just before the war was a mountain of rubble. d. at the first sign of light as neighbours and others assembled to commiserate with him he was already strapping his five-gallon demijohn to his bicycle carrier and his wife, sweating in the open fire, was turning over akara balls in a wide clay bowl of boiling oil.