The last sentence after the no.
Answer: A) It represents an oppressive life of hard labor and poverty.
Parks' purpose in the above excerpt is <span>Parks' purpose is to entertain the audience by telling funny anecdotes. The answer is the second option. </span>The <span>first-person narration in this excerpt best helps readers understand the anger black people felt.</span>
Read the excerpt from Part 2 of The Odyssey by Homer.
We would entreat you, great Sir, have a care
for the gods' courtesy; Zeus will avenge
the unoffending guest.'
He answered this
from his brute chest, unmoved
'You are a ninny,
or else you come from the other end of nowhere,
telling me, mind the gods! We Cyclopes
care not a whistle for your thundering Zeus
or all the gods in bliss; we have more force by far.