The option which best describes what the speaker sees in the "days ahead" is:
A. the fall of America.
This question refers to the poem "America" by Jamaican-American author <u>Claude McKay</u>, more specifically to lines 11 to 14, in which the speaker addresses the fall of America:
<em>"Darkly I gaze into the </em><em>days ahead</em><em>,</em>
<em>And see her might and granite wonders there,</em>
<em>Beneath the touch of Time's unerring hand,</em>
<em>Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand."</em>
- What the speaker means is that he sees the fall of America in "the days ahead." Throughout the poem, the speaker talks of his bittersweet relationship with America. His feelings are somewhere between love and hate or resentment.
- Although he can see America's wonders, beauty, and potential, he can also see its flaws - the prejudice, the corruption.
- <u>In conclusion</u>, the speaker believes America's fate is a bad one. In the future, the country will fall.
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Answer:
B. Character vs. self.
Explanation:
In the story "The Land" part 2 by Mildred D. Taylor, we see the character of Paul riding Ghost Wind. Paul is a mixed race of a white father and a black mother, but whose father made sure that he enjoys the same rights as that of his white brothers. Set in the post slavery era, the story revolves around the lives of Paul and his best friend Mitchell, who is the son of a worker at Paul's father's farm.
The given excerpt is from when Paul decided to let Mitchell ride his horse Ghost Wind, even though he was not supposed to ride it, considering he was the son of a worker. The decision of Paul in allowing his best friend to ride the horse is against their very upbringing, for workers have inferior rights. Mitchell, being the son of a worker, is supposed to be lower than Paul, his master's son. But foregoing all these, Paul decides to let him enjoy. The particular excerpt is a conflict of interest between Paul's character and his own self. He even states that he "<em>don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing I did"</em>. This shows the conflict he has within himself.
The mood is B, Contemplative and quiet because the narrator is far from where the owner lives
