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Read this excerpt from The Land.
What is the best reason why this excerpt is important to
the story?
Eventually there came the time on a late summer
afternoon just before my twelfth birthday when folks came
to visit and it was my mama, not my daddy, who ordered
me to the kitchen. Robert was now expected to stay at my
daddy's table, and no amount of protest on his part
changed that. My mama set a lone plate for me on the
sideboard in the kitchen. That was truly the first time I felt
unwanted in my daddy's family. My daddy hadn't even
bothered to tell me himself not to sit at his table. He had
left that to my mama, and I resented not only him for it, but
her too.
It develops the characterization of Paul's mother
It addresses the minor theme dealing with loneliness
it provides specific details about the historical setting
It addresses the major theme dealing with inequality