Which excerpt from The Land, Part 1 best supports the claim that Paul’s father wants Paul to solve his conflict with Mitchell without someone else’s help?

A) I was looking for complete and absolute revenge, and I figured Hammond at eighteen and George at sixteen could provide that for me.


B) Finally things got so bad, I told my daddy about Mitchell and about how he and other boys too were always picking on me.


C) I took care of it, all right. I enlisted the aid of my brothers, Hammond, George, and Robert. I figured Hammond and George could sure enough stop Mitchell.

D) "You want it stopped, Paul," he said, "then you stop it. This here is between you and Mitchell and whatever other boys. I'm not getting into it.”