Answer: I think the main idea is to show what struggles families faced during the Great Depression. Also, to especially show the struggled children had to face working for their families.
Explanation: Buddy Blankenship starts the paragraph by saying "I told my dad I wasn't going to school anymore". This shows that the author was a child when he started working in the mines with his father. He goes into detail on the struggle he faced, ie, "We got up at 5 in the mornin'" and "We'd work about six hours a day, seventeen hours". This kind of work is grueling and awful for a child.
Since there are no answer choices, i'm going to have to say a Steamship
They’re actually several..but one I would use is “they had an absolute monarchy, and most people were denied basic rights.”
Answer:
"95 Theses"
that the Bible stands as the central religious authority and that humans may reach redemption foremost by their faith and not by their acts
