I would estimate that the first one is the answer.
I looked up the summary(s) for both the passages, and 'to build a fire' is about a guy who despite everything being against him, being persistent and dying because of his actions, while 'gumption' is about the hardships of african americans.
Of course, this is just my estimation.
Allegory? An allegory is a<span> story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.</span>
Holden doesn't feel bad about leaving the school because school wasn't important to him. ... Holden visited Mr. Spencer because he was a teacher that he liked. He regrets visiting Mr. Spencer because he hated being pointed at for example when Mr. Spencer read his paper in front of Holden
Answer:
It varies
Explanation:
If the narrator is speaking for an important part, they are speaking in first person.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Answer:
He felt that the way people treated slaves was not humanly and that we were treating them like animals. Douglass believes that it is not in the nature of men and women to be slaves or slave owners. It requires great effort to possess the attributes of a slave and endure the tortures and humiliation inflicted on a person by a slave owner. Similarly, it requires considerable mental effort for a slave owner to be able to commit such dreadful actions against a fellow human being with no feeling of remorse or compassion. Douglass believes that it is not in the nature of men and women to be slaves or slave owners. It requires great effort to possess the attributes of a slave and endure the tortures and humiliation inflicted on a person by a slave owner. Similarly, it requires considerable mental effort for a slave owner to be able to commit such dreadful actions against a fellow human being with no feeling of remorse or compassion: One cannot easily forget to love freedom; and it is as hard to cease to respect that natural love in our fellow creatures. Through his slave narrative, Douglass attempts to show that slavery distorts the natural compassion inhererent in humans.
