What does the boy's drowning symbolize for elizabeth?

The boys drowning in the Harlem River contribute to the symbolism of fear and danger  in a community with an weird mixture of good and bad people.

In the Rockpile by James Baldwin, the neighborhood is full of perils where mothers try to keep her sons from the violence that  surrounds them nearby as well as many other hazards.

Explanation:

samuel gompers was an extremely important person in the american labor movement, being him an employee all his life he devoted himself to fight for the rights of his pairs, he believed they all had the right to have better thing and that they all were working for them but the factory workers were greedy, ambitions and socialist people for him who he didn't have a good concept of.

he gave so many speeches and led so many strikes and protest to fight for equality which he considered employers didn't want to accept, so he had an absolutely negative opinion of them.

d. it compares the speaker reflection to a predatory bird that haunts the speaker