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A. a statement of the position you will attempt to prove
I am pretty sure that the main idea of the Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto was Japanese American internment. During the whole interview Marielle Tsukamoto tells about how she spent her time in an internment camp, shares her ideas about American citizens, her feelings of leaving lovely place, mentioned all her saddest memories and happy moments and praises her mother, I recommend you to read this article, it’s not a big one.
Answer: Crooks is so named because of a crooked back caused by a kick from a horse. Crooks is the stable hand who takes care of the horses and lives by himself because he is the only black man on the ranch. Along with Candy, Crooks is a character used by Steinbeck to show the effects of discrimination. This time the discrimination is based on race, and Crooks is not allowed in the bunkhouse with the white ranch hands. He has his own place in the barn with the ranch animals.
The correct answer should be alliteration.
Alliteration is repeating the same sound or cluster of sounds in consecutive words and here you have "ragged" and "roamed" and "forest" and "foot", repeating sounds R and F.