I believe the sentence that best conveys the speaker’s
message is: “If we must die—oh, let us nobly die”
In his poem “If We
Must Die”, Claude McKay, a Jamaican-American poet, conveys a message that there
is honor in dying courageously in fight for the civil rights of the African-American
people, and therefore, he states that they should be willing to die for them. He believed that African-American people should only rely on themselves and expect no help from the white people.
Answer:
¨Lew, Fred and I found peace of mind by sitting in easy chairs and turning on a gadget the size of a table-model television set. No herbs, no golden rule, no muscle control, no sticking our noses in other people’s troubles to forget our own; no hobbies, Taoism, push-ups or contemplation of a lotus¨
Explanation:
The theme of (piece title) by (author) is to convey how Xiomara, an Afro Latina teenager, was impacted by her family on her journey through (define it all, her life, her trip, etc) through a coming of age poetry piece.