3. (a) Analyze What is “the invisible absolute racial border” the author mentions in paragraph 13? (b) Deduce What do the details in paragraphs 12–15 suggest about the author’s feelings toward segregation? (c) Assess At the end of paragraph 15, Paley states “I couldn’t look up into her mother face.” Why do you think Paley was unable to look at the woman in that moment?
4. Compare and Contrast In what ways was the experience that Paley’s mother and sister had on a bus traveling to the South similar to and different from her own experience more than fifteen years later?