Why did the narrator's community doubt that "prosperity... was 'just around the corner?"
А
The Depression was so deep that they
thought the nation would never recover.
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B
It was too painful to reach for prosperity
and not attain it; it was easier to not try.
- а
Racism and lack of opportunity was keeping
black workers from sharing in the American
Dream.
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The wealth of members of the black
D) community made it unnecessary because
they had all they ever needed.
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In at least one hundred words, discuss how the man with the umbrella in sorrentino’s “there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella” is an example of an extended metaphor and what central theme he conveys.

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In at least 150 words, identify and describe the setting, and the way the author uses imagery to describe it for part 1 of nectar in a sieve.