Why is the oxygen "terrible" in line 23 ?

In the inner story (the one told by one of the characters), what is the setting, and who are the characters? Which characters appear in both stories?

What could be the "call" that the world makes in line 9?

How would you rate the credibility of the secondary sources? What accounts for your evaluation of their credibility?

How would you answer these questions about Baldwin's "Autobiographical Notes"? The underlined words are Vocabulary words and are defined in the essay.

How did Baldwin feel about writing being $\underline{\text{censored?}}$

Sexton reminds us that this poem is one long sentence. A sentence always contains a doer and an action. What did the speaker do "a thousand doors ago" when she was a lonely kid? What did she tell the stars? What did she think God could really see?