The correct answer is indeed C. When people are doing ordinary things, such as eating or walking. the poem talks about the indifference that most people feel towards the suffering of others, that could be taken place "While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along".
1. Unrealistic beauty standards. It’s a plague to our society and needs to be changed. It causes a lot of people to develop serious mental heath issues, identity issues and even body dysmorphia just trying to emulate the beauty standards that are simply unattainable and not real.
2. Poverty. I think it’s unfair that not everyone can have access to healthcare, which in my opinion should not be paid for, food, shelter and warmth. Which are the basic things needed to live. Not saying we should all be paid the same salary and live in the same houses, even if we’re a hardworking doctor. I just think everyone should be able to be fed, have somewhere to live and clothes on their back and an education so that they have the chance to get a job and create a career for themselves.
3. There’s so many things I’d want to change, limiting it to 3 is so hard lol but my third one would probably be equality between people whether that be race, religion, gender, whatever a person identifies as, who they love, what they want to be in life or however a person chooses to dress, whatever. This is due to the fact that everyone is different. There’s nothing we can do to change that, people are going to be different, they’re going to want to do things differently, they’re going to be born differently etc. Others shouldn’t treat someone else differently or bad because of the colour of someone’s skin, or because of the fact that they’re a woman, for example. A lot of people are prejudice to others just because of the things that make someone who they are, and I think it’s wrong and I’d love for it to change.
Other things I’d like to improve or change: environmental pollution,
global warming,world hunger,animal abuse, war, the education system and the prison system.
Yes, the lady in Cullen's poem is a deeply prejudiced and ignorant person, who doesn't want to really get to know black people as they are. Those prejudices seem to be so deeply engraved in collective memory that black people are associated with slavery, menial jobs, and intellectual inferiority. Hurston argues that media have the power to solve this problem. Hurston writes: "It is assumed that all non-Anglo-Saxons are uncomplicated stereotypes. Everybody knows all about them. They are lay figures mounted in the museum where all may take them in at a glance. They are made of bent wires without insides at all. So how could anybody write a book about the non-existent?"
Similarly, in Cullen's short and poignant poem, the lady believes that even in heaven black people will be assigned the same kind of duty that they have on Earth, in her opinion. It's as if they aren't capable of doing anything else, nor are they entitled to anything else above that.
