It relates the daily struggles of average American people with honesty.
It presents, in an enduring fashion, a realism and regionalism new to literature.
B AND C
Answer:
This American myth has taken root in classrooms across the country, where children are being encouraged to create their own "quilt codes" and believe fictional stories as if they reflect proven fact.
Explanation:
The idea in sentence 2 states that there was no historical evidence to show that quilts which were hung on clotheslines were in fact used as secret codes by travelers on the Underground Railway and the sentence that develops this idea is the sentence that says that children in schools are encouraged to to create their own quilt codes and stating that they fictional events as if they were real.
Tellez effectively creates a suspenseful atmosphere and setting to lay out the theme first by establishing to the reader and “the man” are not allies (something seemingly not known by “the man”, then adding to it by his masterful use of contrast. Tellez clearly establishes that the two characters are not on the same side when the narrator remarks to himself, “He went on talking. He evidently took it for granted that I was on the side of the existing regime.” (Tellez, 1). This occurs when Captain Torres (“the man”) enters the shop requesting a shave and begins discussing his plans for the captured rebels. Furthermore, this assessment by the narrator also makes apparent that he thinks Torres does not know he is not oh his side. By doing this, tension and suspense is generated between the two characters, although it appears that only one is aware of what has transpired.
