Question

Read the excerpt from "In Response to Executive Order 9066". Of course I’ll come. I’ve packed my galoshes and three packets of tomato seeds. Denise calls them love apples. My father says where we’re going they won’t grow. The father’s comment in this stanza lends the poem a tone of playfulness. irony. formality. hopelessness.

Answer 1

I believe that it is hopelessness

Answer 2

The correct answer is D.

The the father's comment gives the poem a hopeless tone.

"In Response to Executive Order 9066" is a poem by Dwight Okita. It was written after the attack on Pearl Harbol, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of over 120,000 people of Japanese descent.

In this stanza, the narrator is packing to leave his home, but his father is hopeless and believes they are going to be sent to an awful place.