Urgent within 5 ! read the excerpt from richard wright’s black boy. my mother finally went to work as a cook and left me and my brother alone in the flat each day with a loaf of bread and a pot of tea. when she returned at evening she would be tired and sometimes dispirited and would cry a lot. sometimes, when she was in despair, she would call us to her and talk to us for hours, telling us that we now had no father, that our lives would be different from those of other children, that we must learn as soon as possible to take care of ourselves, to dress ourselves, to prepare our own food; that we must take upon ourselves the responsibility of the flat while she worked. why does wright include this text? a.)to stress the importance of communicating with children b.)to encourage children to around the house c.)to emphasize the hardships of single parenting d.)to inspire women to seek a rewarding career

Wright includes this text for the following reason:

C.)to emphasize the hardships of single parenting.

Explanation:

The author describes a desolating scenario: two kids left alone in the household with no adults around to help or guide them in any way. They had too little to eat. All of it happened due to the fact their father was gone and their mother had to work as a cook so she was able to make ends meet (maybe not even that). If the kids' father were still around, he could either be with the kids while their mother was working or have a job as well and help financially. The parents could maybe take turns in staying home with the kids. In other words, the author made it clear that single parenting is extremely hard and painful.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

two factors or characteristics of a chapter that might make it difficult to read would be words i don't understand, or if i don't fully understand what's going on in the chapter. strategies i can use to get through the difficult material would be a dictionary, and re-reading previous chapters to get a better grasp of what the author is trying to say.