The correct answer is option letter C. Taken from the public speech called "<em>I Have a Dream</em>" by Martin Luther King Jr., the life of poverty many African-Americans led during the 1960s is compared to <u>a lonely island</u>. Dr. King used this metaphor to explain how African-Americans were isolated and set apart from the rest of the society like a lonely island in the middle of “a vast ocean of material prosperity” as he explains.
