The first answer should be correct, as none of the others make any sense.
Answer:
I couldn't because I didn't have enough time.
Is whaterver we dont want it to happen
I think the author chose to start the book 19 years before the main events of the story so the reader could absorb things. The author technically wanted the reader(s) to understand something before reading the real story.
B. it conveys the subject of the paragraph.
A topic sentence is the main idea which is the subject of the paragraph.