America and I

Part B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?

A. "America! From the other end of the earth from where I came, America was a land of
living hope, woven of dreams, aflame with longing and desire" (Paragraph 2)
B. "they came from the same village... But they were so well-dressed, so well-fed, so
successful in America, that they were ashamed to remember their mother tongue."
(Paragraph 10)
C. "I could almost begin to think with English words in my head. But in my heart the
emptiness still hurt. I burned to give, to give something, to do something, to be
something." (Paragraph 62)
D. "'Why don't they have free boarding-schools for immigrants — strong people — willing
people? Here you see us burning up with something different, and America turns her
head away from us.'" (Paragraph 92)

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B. "Choked for ages in the airless oppression of Russia, the Promised Land rose up —wings for my stifled spirit — sunlight burning through my darkness" (Paragraph 3)