What is the central idea of “the light of gandhi’s lamp”? how does the central idea emerge and develop over the course of the passage? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be at least two complete paragraphs.

A) The word suggests a tragic tone.

Explanation: in the excerpt we can see the description of a woman and her son, and also the brief description of a situation: that the woman's husband and her two older sons had been deported by mistake, separating her from her family. After that, we see the word shattered, which gives us the idea of how this situation really affected her, so the answer is that the word suggests a tragic tone.