The answer is C. to prove
in Joy Harjo's "New Orleans", the line "beaten silver paths" refers to the streets of such city. She remembers of certain Spanish conqueror, De Soto,who came to this lands searching for, and constantly states that he wouldn't find it here. Maybe is a mock to that fact.
The "silver blades and crosses" refers to the sword and crucifix of the conqueror, who drawn in the Mississippi river which dreamt of those items. Maybe this means that the streets of New Orleans were made of the things and dreams of the many conquerors who came to that land in search for gold and failed.
Answer:
“With one boy in particular my mother had to sit me down and explain.”
Explanation:
Perhaps this one “boy” doesn’t want to be a boy anymore and gets offended when the main character refers to them as a “guy” or was never a guy to begin with. In that case it would make sense that the boy would get offended
As, Because, Since, and Where.
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