Read the excerpt.

“She came running along the shore, rapid and leaving no trace, like a leaf driven by the wind into the sea. My brother said gloomily, ‘Go and take her; carry her into our boat.’ I lifted her in my arms. … I said, ‘I take you from those people. You came to the cry of my heart, but my arms take you into my boat against the will of the great!’ … ‘Let us be off,’ said my brother. ‘We are cast out and this boat is our country now--and the sea is our refuge.’”

In “The Lagoon” by Joseph Conrad, which is the main plot event in Arsat’s story?



Arsat and his brother build a cabin in a lagoon.


Arsat and his brother run away with Diamelen.


Arsat asks the white man to go fishing with the others.


Arsat asks the Mayan ruler for permission to marry Diamelen.