Wright included the anecdote in order to demonstrate his father's dismissive treatment. The correct option is D. From the excerpt given above, it is obvious that the father has money which he can give to his family but he lied that he has no money. Thus, he is showing that his family is not worthy of his financial consideration.
Answer:
The setting is unpleasant
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Explanation:
An allegory is a story in which the entire work involves characters and actions that stand for abstract ideas or historic events. It has two levels of meaning, one involving the characters, setting, plot, etc, and the symbolic level, where ideas are abstracted into characters, figures, events. A well known example is Plato's Cave where education or the lack if it is represented by the shadows and the sun.
Answer:
teachers' expectations influenced children's performances
Explanation:
The Pygmalion effect describes situations where someone's high expectations improves our behavior and therefore our performance in a given area. It suggests that we do better when more is expected of us.
Answer:
A. To demonstrate Equiano's lack of knowledge about European customs due to living in an isolated part of the continent.
Explanation:
Olaudah Equiano in the autobiography written by him demonstrated all the travails he went through while being transported across the Atlantic Ocean by the White men. In paragraph five, Equiano asked a series of questions to his fellow countrymen on board with him on the ship. He asked about the country of the white men, and if they had their own women. He also asked about how the vessel could go and was amazed when the workings of the vessel were explained to him.
All these show that Equiano had no knowledge of the European way of life because he had lived in Africa all his life.
