Read the sentence from langston hughes's story "gumption": "ain't this the place what's giving all the white folks jobs doing what they used to doing and know how to do? my boy ain't know nothing about no pick and shovel." what kind of language does hughes use in these sentences? a. dialect, to add to the story's realism b. descriptive, to add to the story's sensory details c. figurative, to add to the story's layers of meaning d. symbolic, to add to the story's theme

Alvarez instruction active understanding characters what can you conclude about the daughters, based on the passage? check all that apply. her daughters would seek her out at night when she seemed to have a moment to talk to them: they were having trouble at school or they wanted her to persuade their father to give them permission to go into the city or to a shopping mall or a movie - in broad daylight, mami! laura would wave them out of her room. "the problem with you " the problem boiled down to the fact that they wanted to become americans and their father and their mother, too, at first - would have none of it. -“daughter of invention," julia alvarez they struggle to fit in. they feel supported by their mother. they value their mother's advice. they embrace american culture. they want to leave new york