Which piece of evidence best supports the personal response from the previous question?

Which piece of evidence best supports the personal response from the previous question?

The residents do not feel empowered and instead are content to wait for decisions to be made for them, as illustrated by their “undeniable sense of relief” when the petition gets refused.

At the end of the story, readers learn that “the young people roughly between seventeen and twenty” are not content with the status quo.

The narrator explains that it was heartwarming to see the colonel “smile throughout this solemn speech describing a grievous misfortune.”