In lift every voice and sing, which of the following most closely identifies the focus of the speaker? question 20 options: a) the speaker is focused on a group of people and their history. b) the speaker is focused on himself and a particular event. c) the speaker is focused on his immediate family at a gathering. d) the speaker is focused on a close friend and a shared experience.

a) The speaker is focused on a group of people and their history. This is the correct option.

James Weldon Johnson created the song to be sung in front of Lincoln during one of his birthdays ( 1900). Then,  the song  became part of an association, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , and since then it has been considered as a sort of Black National Anthem.

These options are not right:

b) The speaker is focused on himself and a particular event. ( James W. Johnson is focused on a social event. He is part of that social problem: racism).

c) The speaker is focused on his immediate family at a gathering.  . ( The song was sung in one of Lincoln's birthdays. The song is not focused on the speaker's family).

d) The speaker is focused on a close friend and a shared experience ( The speaker is concerned with a social issue: racism in the U.S).

The right answer is the a) The speaker is focused on a group of people and their history. The speaker in this poem by James Weldon Johnson is focused on the historical struggle that African Americans have had to endure in order to live and thrive in their own native land ("... Stony the road we trod / Bitter the chastening rod / Felt in the days when hope unborn had died..."). The poem, nevertheless, is celebratory and optimistic ("... Out from the gloomy past / Till now we stand at last / Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast..."), and it seeks to raise the spirits and to encourage its audience to remain hopeful and faithful to God.  

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).