input: Text: THE MAN OUTSIDE By EVELYN E. SMITH Illustrated by DILLON No one, least of all Martin, could dispute that a man's life should be guarded by his kin—but by those who hadn't been born yet? Nobody in the neighborhood was surprised when Martin's mother disappeared and Ninian came to take care of him. Mothers had a way of disappearing around those parts and the kids were often better off without them. Martin was no exception. He'd never had it this good while he was living with his old lady. As for his father, Martin had never had one. He'd been a war baby, born of one of the tides of soldiers—enemies and allies, both—that had engulfed the country in successive waves and bought or taken the women. So there was no trouble that way. Sometimes he wondered who Ninian really was. Obviously that story about her coming from the future was just a gag. Besides, if she really was his great-great-grand-daughter, as she said, why would she tell him to call her " Aunt Ninian "? Maybe he was only eleven, but he'd been around and he knew just what the score was. At first he'd thought maybe she was some new kind of social worker, but she acted a little too crazy for that. He loved to bait her, as he had loved to bait his mother. It was safer with Ninian, though, because when he pushed her too far, she would cry
  Question: By all accounts, Martin should be grateful for the descendants,
  
   (A) yet he resents them.  He rebels against the new way of life they try to petition upon him.
   (B) and he is.  He is appreciative of the fact that they want to make him an integral part of securing their future way of existence.
   (C) and he is.  They have introduced Martin to a much better lifestyle than he was accustomed to.
   (D) but he is unappreciative of the lifestyle they bring to him because he would rather have things the way he was accustomed to.  He sees that even though his lifestyle was rudimentary in comparison, it was genuine.
  Answer:
output: but he is unappreciative of the lifestyle they bring to him because he would rather have things the way he was accustomed to.  He sees that even though his lifestyle was rudimentary in comparison, it was genuine.