Read the excerpt.
“He fell and was up again, but the men were closing round him. He shouted, ‘I am coming!’ The men were close to him. I looked. Many men. Then I looked at her. Tuan, I pushed the canoe! I pushed it into deep water. She was kneeling forward looking at me, and I said, ‘Take your paddle,’ while I struck the water with mine. Tuan, I heard him cry. I heard him cry my name twice; and I heard voices shouting, ‘Kill! Strike!’ I never turned back.”
In “The Lagoon” by Joseph Conrad, what motivates Arsat to leave his brother behind?
He was angry with his brother.
He doesn’t realize the extent of the danger.
He is afraid his pursuers will catch them.
He knows his brother will survive.