Answer:
- "A shadow had lain down beside him. And this shadow threw itself over him."
- "Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize me . . . You're killing your father . . . I have bread . . . for you too . . . for you too . . ."
Explanation:
The correct options most directly reflect the idea of cruelty arising under horrible conditions, because they reveal, first, a cruel attack on the man hiding a piece of bread, and second, that the attacker was, in fact, that man´s son, who was killing his own father out of pure hunger and desperation.
The incorrect options only provide the perspective of the narrator, who is a mere spectator of the man hiding a piece of bread, and describe the events before the final reveal, which is the cruelest act of all: the killing of a father by his own son due to hunger.
