Which excerpt from Barnio Boy shows the author expressing his feelings about his childhood? That night we shared a small room at the meson with two ladies and their children,
"My mother sends greetings and says may God give you a good day, and here is an egg."
O Any neighborhood courtesy-an exchange of a banana for a red pepper, or the return of a borrowed utensil-was
sure to pass through our messenger system...
If you were past six and going on seven, life in Jalco could be made disagreeable by neighbors who seemed to think
that they could scold you and tell you how to behave.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.