Match each unseen prose excerpt below with its corresponding central theme or main idea.
- Excerpt I: When the excavators tore through the sacred grove of Ogbunike to lay the foundation for luxury high-rises, Mama Nkechi did not weep. She simply collected fistfuls of red earth into her apron. The developers offered compensation envelopes stacked with crisp banknotes, but to the elders, paper currency could never buy back the burial sites of their forebears or restore the quiet sanctity of the soil. As the cement trucks poured liquid stone over uprooted roots, the community realized their heritage was being quietly traded for concrete monuments of modern progress.The erosion of cultural heritage and ancestral roots due to commercial modernization.
- Excerpt II: Chief Bako’s annual charity gala was a masterpiece of orchestrated benevolence. Photographers’ flashes illuminated his embroidered agbada as he handed a giant ceremonial check to the orphanage directors. Local newspapers hailed his boundless generosity, yet behind the gilded gates of his holding company, factory workers had spent three months striking for unpaid basic wages and elementary safety equipment. The champagne flowed freely, toasts were made to human spirit, and by midnight, the cost of the lavish ice sculptures alone exceeded the entire sum donated.The hypocrisy of performative philanthropy obscuring underlying social exploitation.
- Excerpt III: Every morning, old Pa Silas rowed his wooden canoe through the oil-slicked tributaries of the creek, casting his nylon nets into water that reeked of crude. Where silver schools of tilapia once leaped in abundance, his catch now yielded only a few stunted mudfish and tangled plastic debris. Yet he refused to migrate to the noise of the capital like his children had. With quiet tenacity, he cleared the clogged mangroves each evening, believing that as long as one fisherman remained, the river’s soul would not perish.Indomitable human resilience and attachment to nature despite environmental degradation.
- Excerpt IV: Inside the high-ceilinged mansion of the ministry, Senator Danjuma sat alone before a cold dinner plate. Outside his fortified gates, security sirens wailed across the capital, shielding him from the angry chants of protesting youth. He had climbed to the pinnacle of political office by aligning with ruthless patrons, sacrificing his youthful ideals and childhood friendships along the way. Surrounded by polished marble floors, armed guards, and obsequious aides who reported his every whisper, he realized the summit of power was merely a high-walled prison.The psychological isolation and moral alienation accompanying compromised political power.
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Excerpt I matches the erosion of cultural heritage due to commercial modernization; Excerpt II matches the hypocrisy of performative philanthropy; Excerpt III matches human resilience despite environmental degradation; Excerpt IV matches the psychological isolation accompanying compromised political power.
Each excerpt contains specific narrative elements that point directly to its central thematic focus: Excerpt I depicts ancestral loss to urban growth; Excerpt II satiriizes public charity hiding worker neglect; Excerpt III reflects endurance in a polluted creek; Excerpt IV explores loneliness at the top of a corrupt political system.
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Identification of Main Idea and Theme in Unseen Prose