Media pioneer sara breedlove, under the name madam c. j. walker, was born on a cotton plantation in louisiana in 1867. she was the daughter of former slaves. walker was the first female african american

Explain the effect of the rhetorical questins for the below paragraph."i pinched myself: was i still alive? was i awake? how was it possible that men, women, and children were beiing burned and that the world kept silent? no. all this could not be real. a nightmare soon i would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that i waas back in the room of my childhood, with my "