Dante compares the souls of the condemned boarding Charon's boat as follows: “As in the autumn the leaves peel away, / One following another, until the bough / Sees all its treasures spread upon the ground.” This simile suggests that the souls of the dead ___________________. will be reborn in “spring” have no will of their own, moving like leaves at the mercy of the wind are patient and orderly appreciate the beauty of each other once gathered like “treasures”

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The answer is C: moving like leaves at the mercy of the wind. "As in the autumn the leaves peel away," the souls are still wating some kind of judgement concerning the place they should go, Heaven or Hell, because they are neutral souls. Then, on Charon's boat, they move to what God's justice decide, a "fitting punishment."  This reflects Dante's sense of divine justice.