I am pretty sure that in brooks' novel, the rector presents the plague as <span>a chance to save the souls of nonbelievers. I consider the third option as the correct one as author represented as if it will refine the villape people's souls.
Hope you will find it helpful!
Regards.</span>
When the movie ends, what the oak tree does at the theater is that it leaves.
This is a pun supposed to have a humorous effect on the listener or the reader - usually, when a movie ends, people leave the theater. However, since this is a tree, and it's got leaves, you can understand the correlation between the two words.
The effect of natural voice is that it changes the pitch of the voice.