Read this excerpt from extremely loud and incredibly close. i knew i could never let mom hear the messages, because protecting her is one of my most important raisons d’être, so what i did was i took dad’s emergency money from on top of his dresser, and i went to the radio shack on amsterdam. what assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?

That the messages would increase his mother's suffering???

The best assumption that we can get from this excerpt is that this message will be able to increase his mother's suffering. He is really concern about his mother and he knows that the message would harm her a lot. For him, she is the reason for living that's why he acted like that.

the answer is:  

he is voicing feelings shared by all humans regardless of race.

in paul laurence dunbar's poem "we wear the mask," he replicates the words mask and we to emphasize how people in general -not just black americans- hide their true feelings. he suggests the masks cover people's faces and eyes, which are the main parts that display their emotions. he also thinks people's pain conceal behind those masks, so that they cannot see reality and nobody is able to see one another's sorrow.

the red coloration of the lungs looks alarming and adds to the overall message that the flu is threatening apex