Which sentence best describes the theme of the essay?
a. "As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed to do so."
b. "He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of the sahib."
c. "I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool."
d. "At that age I was not squeamish about killing animals, but I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to."
e. "I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys."