On of the central themes in the reading, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is that everyday people can provide some of the greatest wisdom. Which quote from the text most strongly supports that theme?
Question 3 options:

a)

“Were they the same that I had read? Or were there notes, music, lined on the pages, as in a hymn book?”

b)

“That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.”

c)

“I have tried often to search behind the sophistication of years for the enchantment I so easily found in those gifts.”

d)

“Now no one is going to make you talk—possibly no one can.”

1.) is true

2.) is false

the underlined phrase is an example of : understatment

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the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.