In Mattie's mind, Blanchard's balloon—“a yellow silk bubble escaping the earth”—symbolizes freedom, particularly an escape from her home, where she feels as if she's trapped and treated like a child.
The correct answers should be C, B, and B. I hope these are correct for you. In paragraph 3 it says " 100 years later the Negro live on a lonely island". this means the answer is C for the first one. The second one is B because when he says chains of discrimination he does not mean their actually held by chains. This means B is the answer for the second one. In paragraph 8 it says that "The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty". This means B is the correct answer for the third one. Hope this helped.
The thesis is usually at the beginning of the essay. It states what you will talk about in the essay. It's kind of like a preview.
