Question

Read this passage from “The Rockpile.” Why does Elizabeth look at Roy as she is talking to the boys?

“You children stay away from there, you hear me?” Though she said “children” she was looking at Roy, where he sat beside John on the fire escape. “The good Lord knows,” she continued, “I don’t want you to come home bleeding like a hog every day the Lord sends.”


Elizabeth cares more about Roy than she does about John.


Roy is more likely to sneak off and go to the rockpile to play than John is.


John has already promised to never go to the rockpile, but Roy has not.


Roy is hard of hearing, but John is not.

Answer 1

Roy is more likely to sneak off

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Answer 2

Elizabeth cares more about Roy than she does about John.

Step-by-step explanation:

"The Rockpile" is a short story by American creator James Baldwin. At first distributed in 1965 as a major aspect of his compilation, Going to Meet the Man, it returns to a large number of the characters of Baldwin's prior Depression-time novel, Go Tell it on the Mountain. The story happens in Harlem, following John who attempts to prevent his sibling Roy from stirring up some dust with a few young men on a stone heap in their neighborhood. Whenever Roy, obviously, gets injured, his dad accuses John, who is just his stepson. The young men's mom, Elizabeth, goes to bat for John, yet without much of any result. The story was acclaimed for its topics of hostility and familial connection in African-American families in Jim Crow-time America.