Mr. and mrs. farquar … asked the scientist to lunch. … gideon … said grudgingly: “the big baas want to know what medicine i used? ” he spoke incredulously, as if he could not believe his old friends could so betray him. mr. farquar began explaining how a useful medicine could be made out of the root, and how it could be put on sale, and how thousands of people … could be saved by the medicine. … [t]hey all realized he would never give in. the magical drug would remain where it was, unknown and useless except for the tiny scattering of africans who had the knowledge … power and wisdom. in “no witchcraft for sale” by doris lessing, how does gideon’s cultural background affect his actions with the medicinal plant? a. gideon’s position as a leader in the native community requires him to be kind to the scientist. b. gideon’s position as teddy’s caregiver leads him to give away the name of the medicinal root. c. gideon’s position as a tribal medicine man dictates that he not betray the secret to outsiders. d. gideon’s position as a servant to the family demands that he tell the farquars what they want to know.

the major theme of langston hughes’s montages of a dream deferred is the deferred, or delayed, american dream of african americans. the poem is about how african americans failed to achieve their goals in time:

this year, maybe, do you think i can graduate?

i’m already two years late.dropped out six months when i was seven,

a year when i was eleven,

then got put back when we come north.

to get through high high school at twenty's kind of late–

but maybe this year i can graduate.

the poem also depicts how african americans had to keep postponing their needs with a hope that someday they would be able to obtain what they desired:

maybe now i can have that white enamel stove

i dreamed about when we first fell in love

eighteen years ago.

but you know,

rooming and everything

then kids,

cold-water flat and all that.

but now my daughter’s married

and my boy's most grown–

quit school to work

and where we're moving

there ain't no stove–

maybe i can buy that white enamel stove!

however, despite their deferred dreams, the poem shows the refusal of african americans to give up easily and let go of their dreams of a better life. their dreams may have been delayed, but they did not lose hope.

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