Read the excerpt from the land.
mister ray sutcliffe from alabama did not look . "all right. all right. i'm going to pay you what you asking, this four times a rider's wages—but only if you win, you hear? you lose, boy, and you get nothing."
i was taking a big risk with my daddy, to walk away with nothing for it. but i figured i'd struck the best deal i could with ray sutcliffe, and despite the risk, there was something in me that wanted to prove to my daddy not only that i could ride this stranger's horse, but that i was a man now. i nodded. "i understand," i said. "but if he wins, i'll need my money right after the race."

[v]ast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging . . which satirical element is most dominant in the passage above?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

What was considered an unorthodox theme in bradstreets love poems?