Which theme is demonstrated in this excerpt from "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg?
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: yes, it is true I have seen
the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is:On the faces of women
and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my
city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be
alive and coarse and strong and cunning
A. a sense of pride in where one lives
B. a feeling of shame in one's surroundings
C. a feeling of pity toward a locality
D. a desire to improve one's living conditions