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Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

They caught me. My father was beaten to near death. Some of them were students, whose parents were peasants. Some of them were teachers, who used to be his best friends. They had tasted the carp.

"The Carp," sixth stanza, Yun Wang

In the stanza above, what does Wang use the symbol of the carp to illustrate?

Wang's father was good a fisherman, but the people in his school did not care.
Although Wang's father shared his good fortune with others, they still turned on him.
The teachers and students at the school did not like the carp that Wang had brought them.
Wang's father was wise to share his fish with his friends.

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The carp illustrates the pain and humility his father had experienced.
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