1. ""Often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it – and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges."" Why is this line significant? Is this about denial as the narrator suggests? What is denied?

He wants to have his children to have more money and be even more comfortable.

The denial is in his own mind and he feels like he was not given something he should have been.

this headline suggests that midterm congressional   elections are at the corner and trump administration wants to activate his base by vowing to clamp down on immigrants and immigration as trump had said during his election campaign around two years ago. when a baby is born in usa, the baby becomes citizen of usa for 85 years and trump wants to end this rule of birthright citizenship to control illegal immigration and this what he said in an interview""we’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the united states for 85 years, with all of those benefits,” "

what is the question you are trying to ask?