Recall that Garrett Hongo’s poetry often explores themes about the topics of alienation and discrimination, particularly of Asian American people. Which elements of the poem "The Legend” support themes about these topics? Check all that apply. imagery of an “Asian, Thai or Vietnamese” man who is alone and wearing dingy clothes diction, such as “just done his wash for the week” imagery of snow falling softly one evening in Chicago diction, such as “dressed as one of the poor / in rumpled suit pants” and “a babbling no one understands” the perspective of a boy who gets lost in the crowd

Garrett Hongo's poem "The Legend" has a serious and ultimately sad tone. It narrates the death of an Asian man, who is out on the street after doing his laundry for the week. He is hit by a boy shooting a pistol, probably a young thief. In the poem, the man is described under the theme of discrimination. His origin is generalized. He's Asian, "Thai or Vietnamese", as most people from the Western world would say, since they aren't able to recognize the difference. He's appearance is also talked of in a superficial and negative manner: skinny, "in rumpled suit pants and a plaid mackinaw, dingy and too large." When he is hit, he says something that, to others, sounds just like babbling. It's as if, even in his death, no one can see past the fact that he is Asian, that he belongs to a different race. But the speaker of the poem can. And he mourns him:

and I feel so distinct

from the wounded man lying on the concrete

I am ashamed.

Let the night sky cover him as he dies.

Let the weaver girl cross the bridge of heaven

and take up his cold hands.