As the lyric voice dreams and hopes all through the poem it means this subject is fantasizing of a different world, so it is implied that the speaker <u>lives in a time and place where equality does not exist.</u> This is a common theme on Langston Hughes' poems, the need for equality for a better world. As it was written before the 1964 Civil Rights Act, there were a lot of segregation over the United States, and many black people were harmed and had struggles because of the racial issue.
Explanation:
Read the excerpt from Night below and answer the question.
“Hey, kid, how old are you?”
The man interrogating me was an inmate. I could not see his face, but his voice was weary and warm.
“Fifteen.”
“No. You’re eighteen.”
“But I’m not,” I said. “I’m fifteen.”
“Fool. Listen to what I say.”
Then he asked my father, who answered:
“I’m fifty.”
“No.” The man now sounded angry. “Not fifty. You’re forty. Do you hear? Eighteen and forty.”
Why does the prisoner insist that Wiesel and his father lie about their ages?
He wants to win the favor of the Nazi guards.
He is probably deranged because of the conditions in the concentration camp.
He is trying to save their lives.
He considers them a threat and is trying to get rid of them.
<span>d. a narrator who can experience the action only through the eyes of one particular character</span>
