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Please help me I will give you the brain thing and extra points please it's for ELA please help me, I can make the points double? 9 Read the following poem, "Harlem" by Langston Hughes:
What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Which best describes the AUTHOR'S PURPOSE for writing this poem?
Question 9 options:

A. To inform readers about what happens to rotten meat

B. To explain to readers how easy it is to follow one's dreams

C. To help readers understand the dangers of achieving one's dreams.

D. To describe the negative effects of not being able to achieve one's dreams.

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