Answer:
According to Douglass, the ones who are unable to experience the joy of the celebration are:
C. all enslaved people.
Explanation:
Frederick Douglass makes a clear distinction in his speech between what the Fourth of July means to white people and what it means to black people. White people were celebrating their freedom on that day. However, according to Douglass, black people could not do so. They did not partake in that freedom. America was blind to their captivity while celebrating its own freedom, that is, the liberty of her white sons and daughters. The world is different for those who are enslaved. According to Douglass, even sunlight in different, for it brings death instead of life to them. How could he, his brothers and sisters, his friends, their children, how could all of them celebrate? There was no joy for them on that day. That day was not meant for them, for they were not free.
Answer:
The reader can infer that:
A. The narrator will be arrested and punished for killing the old man.
<em>Explanation:</em>
<em>Suddenly I could bear it no longer. I pointed at the boards and cried, “Yes! Yes, I killed him. Pull up the boards and you shall see! I killed him. But why does his heart not stop beating?! Why does it not stop!?”</em>
<u>At the end of the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart", by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator reveals his crime, as seen above. He reveals it to three police officers that have come to his house, which most likely means he will be arrested and punished.</u>
It turns out that the narrator is mentally ill. He confidently claims to be sane as he tells the story, however. He admits to having killed an old man who had done nothing to harm him. The reason why he killed is that he believed the old man to have an evil, vulture-like eye. He also believed he could hear the man's heart beating. After killing him, the narrator hides his body parts under the floor boards, proud of himself for having carried it all out so meticulously.
However, once the officers arrive at his house, the narrator begins to hear the heart beating again. The sound grows louder and louder until, not being able to stand it anymore, he ends up confessing his crime.
A.
The error is the capitalization of F in "Father".
The correct answer would be, "My father has decided to retire in the fall of next year."
Answer:
<em>Icarus learned something by flying too far.</em>
