Read the following excerpt from "Notes of a Native Son" by James Baldwin: The great, gleaming apparatus which fed him and would
have compelled him to be still even if he had been able to
move brought to mind, not beneficence, but torture; the
tubes entering his arm made me think of pictures I had
seen when a child, of Gulliver, tied down by the pygmies on
that island. My aunt wept and wept, there was a whistling
sound in my father's throat; nothing was said; he could not
speak.
Which sentence best analyzes the author's use of allusion in this passage?
O A. The author mentions pygmies to show that his father will
overcome his illness like a giant.
B. The author mentions his father's throat whistling to show
everyone's helplessness to restore him.
O C. The author refers to Rapunzel's state of captivity to show his own
grief as his father is captured by death.
D. The author refers to Gulliver in order to compare the father's
helplessness to the capture of a giant.