Read the excerpt from "ain't i a woman? "
i could work as much and eat as much as a man – when i could get it – and bear the lash as well! and ain’t i a woman? i have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when i cried out with my mother’s grief, none but jesus heard me! and ain’t i a woman?
what is the primary purpose of the phrases “borne thirteen children” and “cried out with my mother’s grief”?
a) to encourage audience members to recall their own struggles
b) to encourage the audience to sympathize with enslaved persons
c) to emphasize the pain and struggle that truth has lived through
d) to emphasize truth’s belief that women should receive special treatment

C) to emphasize the pain and struggle that Truth has lived through.

In this excerpt, Sojourner Truth is describing the pain and struggle she has lived through throughout her life. She also wants to show how slaves and women were disadvantaged groups at the time, and how she believed this to be unfair. The phrases "borne thirteen children" and "cried out with my mother's grief" are intended to emphasize the pain that she has had to endure due to her condition as a woman and a slave.

C) to emphasize the pain and struggle that Truth has lived through.

Explanation:

the swan might be a metaphor for our soul, which is ancient and timeless. the speaker wants to know where it's going and what it wants, what's the purpose in life. he asks our soul to follow him in knowing that god is us and the answer to the question "who am i" that was written on the wind of god's whim to know himself that blew over his being in the beginning of creation. and to connect to god consciously on the path to knowing him is the joy of loving him, like a bee that will grow and end our sorrows by ending desire. in that connection there is no doubt about god and existing forever.

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