Exit in which of the following passages from the text is the author's motif of displacement and separation most evident? a. "in these ways it was a typical wartime departure, full of proud smiles and half-concealed worry." b. "it upheld the army's decision to limit the movements of a racially select group of citizens." c. "once the first year's turmoil cooled down, the authorities started letting us outside…" d. "if anything made that country habitable it was the mountains themselves…"
What do the excerpts have in common? both point out the tragic nature of situations in which children make journeys without their parents. both describe what immigrant children must do to survive when traveling to the united states. both explain why most children want to leave central america without their parents. both indicate the tragic problems and their consequences that children in central america must face.