O A "That word - 'guys' - might earn smiles and nods of understanding in that world, but it brought the ultimate
insult in my neighborhood." ( Paragraph 5)
B "With one boy in particular, my mother had to sit me down
and explain: 'Son, perhaps there's another reason why his
parents keep making excuses for why we can't get
together." ( Paragraph 18)
OC "Painful as some of these experiences were, I was grateful
to have them in middle school and high school, so that
when the time came to head for college, I already had
some fluency navigating between different cultures" (
Paragraph 19)
OD "I watched as too many others from my hometown and
other predominantly black cities struggled in a university
setting where suddenly they really were a minority." (
Paragraph 20)

excerpt from "the   daffodils" by william wordsworth

when and where the picture was taken

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.

is the answer