Answer: B. The effects of the father's imprisonment.
Yun Wang wrote <em>The Carp</em> as a way to remember her father's imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution in China. During this time period, intellectuals, political dissenters, and anyone who was against the Communist party could be imprisoned or sent away to labour camps and "reeducation" programs. The author writes these poems as a way to describe the effects of her father's imprisonment.
