The speaker in "Making a Fist" is the 7 year old girl who was traveling with her mother, now all grown up.
The poem begins with the speaker remembering when she had been traveling for days with her mother. She was unsure if she would survive the journey and asked her mother "How do you know if you are going to die?". Her mother replied simply, "When you can no longer make a fist." The poem then continues with the speaker mentioning all of the obstacles she has overcome. She keeps opening and closing her hand because she is still alive; she can still make a fist. She has overcome.
The statement "The top of the Ladder" means one is at the top of a business or something.
Answer:
C. The contents can tell us a great deal about how people lived in what is called the Neolithic era, or the last period of the Stone Age.
Explanation:
Paragraph 1 - he acknowledges that he is on the couch at home and that the date is July Fourth.
