Answer:
Explanation:
The following sentences showed that the writer admired the boots that the boot maker had crafted:
"Besides, they were too beautiful—the pair of pumps, so inexpressibly slim, the patent leathers with cloth tops, making water come into one's mouth, the tall brown riding boots with marvellous sooty glow, as if, though new, they had been worn a hundred years. Those pairs could only have been made by one who saw before him the Soul of Boot—so truly were they prototypes incarnating the very spirit of all foot-gear."
"For to make boots—such boots as he made—seemed to me then, and still seems to me, mysterious and wonderful. "
Summarize a poem, it's basically paraphrasing.
1. The correct answer here is the first option.
This poem by Langston Hughes who was born in 1902 and died in 1967 was a poet and social journalist among other things. In this poem which consists of two stanzas Hughes writes about the dreams, especially those of the African Americans. Here that dream is to be free and secure without constrain.
2. The correct answer here is the second option.
Both "Why We Wear Masks" and "I, too" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes are similar in tone which is one of determination in making the society better. Dunbar shows in his poem that all is not well in the American society and the situation for the African Americans was not as good as it seemed. So he spoke out with determination in order to make the situation better. Hughes also spoke with determination about perseverance in the African American battle for equality which was long way from over.
3. That would be the second option.
The literary art of the Harlem Renaissance was influenced by the African American culture which was distancing itself from the white stereotypes and defining itself in its own terms through breaking apart from the Victorian moral which was able to enhance the prejudices the whites could have. This is all part of the cultural influence which could be defined as the factors (familial, historical and geographical) that shape and influence the certain processes which here is the Harlem Renaissance.
Answer:
A piano
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Explanation:
James Weldon Johnson's fictional "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," tells the story of a biracial man and his 'journey to understand and accept his identity. The story deals with themes of race, acceptance, and understanding one's real identity.
While the narrator seemed confused about who his real father is and why he is not with them, he also gets to meet him and even shows his musical prowess. A couple of weeks after he met his father for the first time, he got a piano delivered to their residence. At first, he was confused, revealing he almost<em> "[told] the men on the wagon that they had made a mistake"</em>, his mother told him that it was actually a gift from his father.
Thus, the gift was a piano, <em>"a beautiful, brand-new, upright piano."</em>
