Why does the third-person omniscient point of view in "The Piece of String" make the reader feel sympathy for the old man? It shows clearly that the old man is hated by his neighbors.

It allows the reader to see the story from one of the characters' perspectives.

It shows the reader only the old man's desperate thoughts.

It reveals the old man's frustration and the lack of compassion from his neighbors.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination