Answer:
This allusion supports the search for freedom and the difficult world of runaway slaves.
Explanation:
Oh Susanna is a popular song part of the minstrel tradition in which African Americans were made fun of and depicted as simple and ignorant. The original song has a verse in which the protagonist talks about killing black men along the way during the Gold Rush. This verse and other racist remarks of the original text have been taken out over the years. The use of this allusion in the poem Runagate Runagate by Hayden, expresses the urge to find freedom, even if it meant struggles, hardship or even death. It is, at the end, an allusion that reminds the reader of the will and the defiance needed to run away.
I think it’s prepositional phrase
Answer:
I would say the crowd presses in expectantly or the last one
Explanation:
The reason I say this is because he is being pressured by the expectation of the people. It is also the only one that fits. Reading the excerpt says that he is being pressured especially with the part that says "The people expected it of me and I had got to do it; I could feel their two thousand wills pressing me forward, irresistibly." Which shows that he is in fact being pressured by expectation the answer was in the excerpt you just had to look close enough!! I really hope this helps!
Perhaps direct a question to Ellen on whether she’s read any other book by the Author to justify why she hates the author
