Reading Comprehension "Who Understands Me but Me". Which of these statements best summarizes what happened to the speaker in lines 1-14 of "Who Understands Me but Me".

a) they tried to make his life harder
b) they tried to cut him off from nature
c) they tried to make him a better person
d) they tried to show him the evil of his ways

( lines 1-14 in the picture above )​

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.

the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.