It look less time to drive from one city to the other then they had anticipated

What do the excerpts have in common? both point out the tragic nature of situations in which children make journeys without their parents. both describe what immigrant children must do to survive when traveling to the united states. both explain why most children want to leave central america without their parents. both indicate the tragic problems and their consequences that children in central america must face.

Which of these phrases is an example of understatement?

Based on the speakers words and emotions in the poems escape and to live the theme that there are many parts to a persons identity is expressed in neither poem in both poems only in escape only in to live