Read the sentence below, and use context clues to determine the meaning of the word cryptic no one understood the teachers cryptic message about the questions that would be on the test what is most likely the definition of the word cryptic?

How to combine the two sentences in bold.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

How does hughes’ poem, “let america be america again,” represent the idea of the failure of the american dream?