“in speaking of my mother you have touched a string to which my heart fully responds. to have known her is to be an object of great interest in my eyes. i myself never knew her—and never knew the affection of a father. both died (as you may remember) within a few weeks of each other. i have many occasional dealings with adversity—but the want of parental affection has been the heaviest of my trials.”

in this passage, the author quotes poe to define

a. a cause of his dark themes.
b. an effect of his dark themes.
c. the central idea of his dark themes.
d. the relationships in his dark themes.

for me, i'd go with (c) satisfied or (b) overjoyed because if you read it a couple of times, it makes since that it is c or b. it can't b (a) angry because booker was never angry about anything. at the end of the paragraph, booker states, "i think there are not many men in our country who have had the privilege of naming themselves in the way that i " i think that sentence kind of gives away the also, some words in the paragraph can also you like for example, "indulged," "calmly," "perplexity," "privilege," and defining words that you don't know, can you understand more of that paragraph and it can also increase your comprehension. : )

i'm really rally sorry if i'm incorrect, but if i'm hope this ! : )

the narrator is saying that the old lady made her feel uncomfortable. you know this because they say "i found that rather irksome", "perhaps it was her being so upright and trim", and "i don't think it was that, because i thought that quaintly pleasant." hope this !

its d because i know