When Collier uses the metaphor in paragraph 4, what she means is:
D. being poor limited their opportunities in life.
"Marigolds" is a short story by author Eugenia W. Collier (born in Baltimore in 1928). The narrator is Lizabeth, and the story is set during the Great Depression.
The<u> fourth paragraph</u> of the story provides a sad description of Lizabeth's reality growing up during the Depression. She talks about her poorneighborhood and how poverty was like a cage for them.
The narrator uses that metaphor to summarize what she said previously in the paragraph. Being poor meant not only being hungry, but also being culturally deprived.
She and the other children had no access to information, <u>did not understand </u>the reason of the extent of their poverty.
Without proper food, education, and opportunities, they were condemned to remain poor.
In conclusion, letter D is the best option to explain the metaphor, since poverty meant deprivation of opportunities for Lizabeth and the others.
If if the question is to put in the right punctuation than I think this should be it (“run the owner is coming” said the naughty boy, while others giggled, they were in fact gathering the windfall mangoes. Why are you here? I'll punish you. “you will never get hold of me”)
