How did Ralph Ellison's works relate to important social issues of his time? a. His characters worked for a total overthrow of their social system.
b. His stories showed that one cannot escape disadvantaged circumstances.
c. He showed the harsh realities of life for African Americans.
d. He wrote about the lack of opportunities for uneducated people.

C

Explanation: it’s not a because didn’t work for a TOTAL overthrow but may have worked in small ways toward changing the social system. It’s not b, because people can overcome circumstances. It’s not D because he wrote “The Black Ball” (the name of the story is also a metaphor for someone to be in a losing situation) and he didn’t write about education but about African Americans and their disadvantages. Therefore C is correct

when making an inference, the reader should be sure to support the inference with

evidence

a is an educated guess about what will happen.

c. prediction

when new information proves that a reader's prediction is wrong, the reader should

make a new prediction based on the new information.

different routes can lead to sammy to different places, with different roads.   if you check a map, you can see the routes.   try to make connections of the places and count how many there are.   hope this : )