Part C
Read the following stanza from "Freeway 280" by Lorna Dee Cervantes. Describe the environment from which the speaker is trying to escape, both physically and in the way that it affects her. Then explain what you think the speaker is trying to achieve.

I scramble over the wire fence
that would have kept me out.
Once, I wanted out, wanted the rigid lanes
to take me to a place without sun,
without the smell of tomatoes burning
on swing shift in the greasy summer air.

At one time the speaker wanted to escape from the place where she lived. She paints a picture of a neighborhood in the city that is exposed to the hot sun. For the speaker, her old life seems to represent a culturally isolated experience. The speaker craved a life with more opportunities and excitement. Ultimately, the speaker comes back to her roots to explore what that past life means to her identity then and now.

Explanation: plato

the sentence that best describes the tone of the passage from the radio broadcast compared to the passage from the book is b. the radio broadcast has a more surprised tone.

consider the text evidence: in the passage from the book, the description is more matter-of-fact. it is simply describing the things resembling little grey snakes, but there is no urgency in the description. on the other hand, in the passage from the radio broadcast, there is definetely urgency (you can tell from the expression used, "good heavens", which clearly indicates surprise.)