Question

Use the passage to answer the question.
Which sentence from the passage develops the theme that a soldier often must harm other people to protect oneself?
(1 point)
"This courageous gentleman and hardy soldier was near swooning from intensity of emotion."
*He could not hope to capture that enemy; to alarm him would but send him dashing to his camp with his fatal news."
"Carter Druse grew pale; he shook in every limb, turned faint, and saw the statuesque group before him as black figures, rising, falling, moving unsteadily in arcs of circles in a fiery sky."
"But no-there is a hope; he may have discovered nothing; perhaps he is but admiring the sublimity of the landscape."

Answer 1

The sentence that develops the theme that a soldier often must harm other people to protect oneself is: "He could not hope to capture that enemy; to alarm him would but send him dashing to his camp with his fatal news." This indicates that in order to protect himself and his position, the soldier feels compelled to consider harming or neutralizing the enemy.