1. Summarize What is the speaker describing-both literally and figuratively-in "Song of the Son"? How do the poem's ideas and images express one or more
themes on the topic of African American history?

Esther is a person and who makes friends easily. parallel structure how?

My cat and my dog like best friends

Read these sentences from the excerpt: i would sometimes say to them, i wished i could be as free as theywould be when they got to be men. "you will be free as soon as you aretwenty-one, but i am a slave for life! have not l as good a right to befree as you have? how does the use of a rhetorical question advance the author's purposeof showing that all people deserve freedom? it shows the reader that douglass is unsure of hisstatements.it indicates that douglass believes he deserves freedom.oit demonstrates that douglass is questioning his beliefs.it reminds the reader that some questions areunanswerable