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Literary critic: Many readers interpret the protagonist's silence at the end of the novel as a sign of despair. However, throughout the book, the author uses silence to signify deep contemplation and spiritual peace. Therefore, the ending should be seen as a moment of profound internal resolution rather than despair.
The statement that the author uses silence to signify deep contemplation and spiritual peace plays which one of the following roles in the argument?
- It is the evidentiary basis the critic invokes to justify reading the closing silence as resolution rather than despair.
- It is a concession the critic grants to readers who find the ending ambiguous.
- It is a sub-conclusion supported by the claim about how many readers respond to the ending.
- It is the overall judgment the argument is designed to reach.
- It compares this novel's use of silence to the techniques of other authors in the genre.
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