Sidney has been a teacher for 23 years. He has been feeling trapped in "this life" for the last five years and finds his teaching efforts unappreciated and poorly compensated. So, in the middle of the semester, he quits his job, divorces his wife, and moves to a large city to start over in a sales job. Erikson would say that Sidney was experiencing:

a. stagnation. b. isolation. c. despair. d. role confusion.

The correct answer is a. stagnation

Explanation:

Sidney was experiencing stagnation. According Erikson, stagnation refers to the inability to care for the other. It is produced by not having resolved crises from previous or current stages, which prevents the development and strengthening of the self, that is, individuals who, despite the success they may have achieved in their professions, feel that those goals are crumbling, leaving them a huge sense of personal emptiness, in addition the can have feelings of dissatisfaction, boredom, numbness and interpersonal impoverishment.

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.