28. Read this passage from "And of Clay Are We Created."
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During those first hours Rolf Carle exhausted all the resources of his ingenuity to
rescue her. He struggled with poles and ropes, but every tug was an intolerable
torture for the imprisoned girl. It occurred to him to use one of the poles as a lever
but got no result and had to abandon the idea. He talked a couple of soldiers into
working with him for a while, but they had to leave because so many other victims
were calling for help. The girl could not move, she barely could breathe, but she did
not seem desperate, as if an ancestral resignation allowed her to accept her fate. The
reporter, on the other hand, was determined to snatch her from death. Someone
brought him a tire, which he placed beneath her arms like a life buoy, and then laid a
plank near the hole to hold his weight and allow him to stay closer to her. As it was
impossible to remove the rubble blindly, he tried once or twice to dive toward her
feet but emerged frustrated, covered with mud, and spitting gravel. He concluded
that he would have to have a pump to drain the water, and radioed a request for one
but received in return a message that there was no available transport and it could
not be sent until the next morning.
Rolf Carle's main conflict is that he is
A.)frustrated with the girl for not fighting harder to save herself.
B.)unwilling to admit that there isn't much he can do to save the girl
C.)discouraged that there aren't more resources available to help save the girl.
D.)angered by the fact that he seems to be the only one working to save the girl