Which two choices best support the theme? The family was poor. It was 'poor but proud." The
A) confused boy grew up thinking one should be proud
of being poor.
The grandparents told horror stories of having to boil
B) dirt from under the smokehouse to retrieve salt after
the Yankees had been on the land.
They also, however, knew pride. No one in the county
had any money to spend, and there was a security of
blood that transcended the possession of material
things
They had learned to eat a weed called poke salad as
a means of survival in those days, a custom that they
passed on as a springtime ritual of communion to
their descendants
D)
E)
Things apparently got a little better for awhile, but
then the Great Depression hit the South like
aftershock from the earthquake of Reconstruction,
and the children knew poverty firsthand.