It helps to ´Introduce´ the main idea of the paragraph.
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In choosing literary essay topics, there are certain criteria that
should be taken into considerations. It is easy to create topics but are
they enough to be considered as interesting? Here, we can say that a
topic is strong if you can add more information about it and open for
other questions and opinions, but it is weak if the topic is plainly
about something we can easily answer. So, here are the answers of the
following topics given: 1. Weak 2. Weak 3. Strong 4. Strong 5.
Strong 6. Weak
Answer: Their wages wouldn’t even get them out of debt to my grandmother, not to mention the staggering bill that waited on them at the white commissary downtown.
Explanation:
By stating that the town's cotton pickers had wages that could not even get them out of debt with their grandmother, Maya Angelou infers that the cotton pickers were paid meagre salaries which meant they were poor people who were even in debt with the White Commissary downtown which probably supplied them with their farming equipment.
<em>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</em> is an autobiography of Maya Angelou depicting her life as a child growing up with her momma ( grandmother).