Question

Which of these excerpts from "Freeway 280" by Lorna Dee Cervantes best exemplifies the themes of hope and resilience?

A. The freeway conceals it
all beneath a raised scar.
B. old gardens
come back stronger than they were,
trees have been left standing in their yards.
C. I scramble over the wire fence
that would have kept me out.
D. Once, I wanted out, wanted the rigid lanes
to take me to a place without sun

Answer 1

B. old gardens

come back stronger than they were,

trees have been left standing in their yards.

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Answer 2

The correct answer is B) old gardens come back stronger than they were, trees have been left standing in their yards.

The excerpt from "Freeway 280" by Lorna Dee Cervantes that best exemplifies the themes of hope and resilience is " old gardens come back stronger than they were, trees have been left standing in their yards."

Lorna is a Mexican-American writer poet from the "Chicano" movement. Commonly, her poems refer to the hard conditions of poor communities that live in larger cities that face racial issues. In some cases, these communities are displaced when the government built infrastructure project in the larger cities. This is the topic of her poem "Freeway 280."