Read the excerpt below and answer the question. they caught me. my father was beaten to near death. some of them were students, whose parents were peasants. some of them were teachers, who used to be his best friends. they had tasted the carp. "the carp," sixth stanza, yun wang in the stanza above, what does wang use the symbol of the carp to illustrate?

The carp illustrate the bond that the teachers and students had with the father of the narrator, and emphasis that they bet him to near death without taking into consideration how close they all were in the past.

The father of the narrator was the school principal; he caught a 21-pound carp the day the narrator, his son, born, and he shared that carp with all the teachers and boarding students. Therefore, the author, Yun Wang, used the carp as a symbol of the close bond the principal had with the ones that beat him.

- "the answers are a and b.  

when cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute," he is speaking about the racial injustices present in american society. as these injustices have changed over time, the american identity  has also shifted. those changes are, in turn, reflected in american literature."

learning how to embrace the effects of colonialism is one of the central ideas of the play.