The answer is:
It establishes that African Americans are willing to suffer to achieve their rights.
It shows that ordinary African Americans were glad to participate in the movement.
Martin Luther King Jr. quotes Mother Pollard's words to demonstrate African Americans' willpower and eagerness to fight for their rights. During the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the 1950s, Mother Pollard refused to take the bus in spite of her old age and was a treasured influence to King.
Answer:
"The man ignored us and pressed on steadily."
Explanation:
By narrating from a first person point of view, the reader can experience the story as if he was in the narrator's shoes. In this type of point of view, the narrator refers to him or herself, therefore "I", "me", "my", "mine", "we", or "us", is used. This is characteristic of autobiographies for example, where we know the narrator's feeelings and thoughts from first hand. The other characters' feelings or thoughts can only be interpreted by the narrator but not known completely.
In this case the narrator uses us, which means he is the one telling the story from his/her perspective.
Answer:
I think the answer is the oak tree..... I hope it is.
