Question

3. Craft and Structure: What does the word kindred mean in paragraph 2?

Answer 1

Answer: It could mean similar in kind/related, such as kindred spirits. Or it could mean like a part of your family.

Answer 2

Answer:

kindred means, “people like him.”

Explanation:

The author says that in Europe a poor emigrant had nothing but “the love of a few kindred as poor as himself,” which suggests that kindred means, “people like him".