Luma’s decision to walk away from Ashton’s supports the theme “Helping others is more important than a successful business,” as stated in option B.
Theme can be defined as the main idea that a literary work contains. It is basically what the author discusses in the work, what he or she wants readers to learn from it.
In the passage we are analyzing here, we learn that Luma has had her ego hurt by the failure of Ashton's. However, the lesson she learned is that helping others is more important. So much so that she wants now a new business in which she can help women and provide a fair payment.
With the information above in mind, we can select option B as the correct answer. The theme in the passage is “Helping others is more important than a successful business.”
The missing passage for this question is the following:
Read the excerpt from Outcasts United.
The conversation with Jeremiah settled Luma's mind on the question of Ashton's: it was time for her to admit her failure and walk away. But while the failure of Ashton's hurt Luma's ego, it was also an opportunity to focus her life on more important things. She wanted to start a business that could employ women like Beatrice, paying them fairly without making them commute halfway across Atlanta by bus or train.
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