After the car accident, the narrator believes that her mother is hurt.
Explanation:
The fear and relief that the narrator experiences after realizing that her mother is unharmed, is followed by her throwing the umbrella away.
This helps the reader know that the umbrella, and what it represents, is no longer important to the narrator.
With the events that happen during the time of the accident, the narrator realizes the extent to which she values her mother and that she doesn't need an umbrella that represents her earlier rejection of her mother.
Depending on to whom you listen, automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) will either solve all our problems or end the human race. Sometime in the near future, machine intelligence is predicted to surpass human intelligence, a point in time known as “the singularity.” Whether the rise of the machines is an existential threat to mankind or not, I believe that there is a more mundane issue: robots are currently being used to automate production.
Answer:
D. concerned
Explanation:
The speaker seems to care enough to reproduce the many things that the speaker has been told, describing them to us one by one, letting us know the agony that those women felt during that moment, even though it is briefly described.