Um, if you mean on this app then as many as you want it’s just that only two people can answer one question but anyone can message in the comments (click the message, I think, and then it’ll say comments)
Answer: B. IT PROVIDES CONTEXT FOR THE IDEA THAT THE PEOPLE OF MALAWI HAVE SUFFERED A GREAT DEAL FROM NOT HAVING A RELIABLE SOURCE OF ENERGY.
Explanation: In this following passage from "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba: <em>"I continued to climb, slowly and assuredly, until I was facing the machine's crude frame. Its plastic arms were burned and blackened, its metal bones bolted and welded into place. I paused and studied the flecks of rust and paint, how they appeared against the fields and mountains beyond. Each piece told its own tale of discovery, of being lost and found in a time of hardship and fear. Finally together now, we were all being reborn.", </em>context is provided to show that the citizens of Malawi have not recieved reliable energy sources, causing hardships and discomfort.
They are comparable to their time because The Salem Witch Trials compared to the Red Scare in which People hunted down suspected communists, as in the Salem Witch trials, people hunted down suspected witches.
To help the reader better understand the plot, and the setting of the poem in which it takes place.