Which excerpt from "My Heart Is Bursting" most contributes to the cultural view that freedom is essential to happiness?

The excerpt says directly that roaming over the prairies makes the speaker feel “free and happy,” while settling down causes the people to “grow pale and die.” This most clearly presents freedom as necessary for happiness. Choice D expresses sorrow about harm to the speaker’s land and buffalo, but it does not connect freedom to happiness as directly.

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