Read the passage from "Children of the Wartime Evacuation
Which quotation from The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe has a similar central idea?
They came from very different backgrounds - the
Shears were Jewish, he was Christian - but an
affectionate bond developed between them.
-- Children of the Wartime Evacuation,
Julie Summers
O'This story is about something that happened to them
when they were sent away from London during the
war because of the air-raids."
O "He himself was a very old man with shaggy white
hair, which grew over most of his face as well as on
his head, and they liked him almost at once."
O "tell you this is the sort of house where no one's
going to mind what we do. Anyway, they won't hear
us."
O "Mrs. Macready and the visitors were still talking in
the passage; but luckily they never came into the
empty room and so the children weren't caught

He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair, which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they liked him almost at once

Explanation:

Both sentences are about people who are very different creating a bond with each other.

the difference between an explicit and implicit meaning is that the explicit meaning of a poem is that the detail is exactly defined. nothing is left to interpretation. an implicit meaning is an implied meaning. kabir's poetry is both explicit and implicit in that it can be interpreted on different levels. the explicit meaning leaves nothing to interpretation while the implicit meaning leaves lots open to interpretation. an example of this is found in the poem "rumi and the spiritual lover". 

- "the answers are a and b.  

when cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute," he is speaking about the racial injustices present in american society. as these injustices have changed over time, the american identity  has also shifted. those changes are, in turn, reflected in american literature."