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.
O It addresses the minor theme dealing with loneliness
O It provides specific details about the historical setting.
It addresses the major theme dealing with inequality