PLEASE I WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST AND WORTH A TON OF POINTSSS Why does Frederick Douglass describe the distant relationship he had with his mother? to correct a misconception about his past

to demonstrate how well he recalls his formative years

to criticize her for not protecting him from their master

to show how slavery can destroy the deepest of human bonds

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme