During her daydreams, the narrator imagines asking her mother for an umbrella for Christmas. She knows that her mother would declare, "Things…All you want is things, just like an American." (P. 211-212) What does the narrator think the white umbrella would symbolize to her mother?

"night. no one was praying for the night to pass quickly. the stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes." explain the images included in the passage. how is the use of the image of night contradictory to how we might expect it to be used

Look up "racial violence in the early 1960's" and write information about it and find 3 sources about it

In which stage does the author show how the story ends? conflict resolution rising action exposition