Assuming that your question refers to the poem I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, in which the word singing is repeated, this influences the overall meaning by giving it rythm, making it gentle and beautiful,depicting the beautiness of a normal avergae day for most people in which they spontaneausly sing while their are working and doing their daily activities.
Either add the passage with the question so we know what you are referring to or do not post questions like these. Not everybody has read what you have. This question is completely useless and unanswerable without the story to go off of.
I'm thinking that its A.
But I'm not sure Its been a long time since I read that book.
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His parents don't know what love is. Jonas feels sad because he has experienced love, and love does have meaning for him. At the conclusion of Chapter 16, Lowry foreshadows the future when Jonas whispers to Gabe that life in the community could be different if people would change: "There could be love."
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