This excerpt expresses the theme that it can be difficult to know yourself and your place in the world. Which excerpt from "To Live" expresses the same theme? I sit in my crunched-in restraining desk, they call it. with my paper and my pen and I am supposed to see the blackboard around the tall boy en frente de mi but my head won't translate this language log base b of a squared carbon monoxide reacting with phosphorus learning without knowing without room to learn how to know myself to be myself

learning without knowing without room to learn how to know myself to be myself

The best line from the excerpt that expresses the theme that it can be difficult to know yourself and your place in the world is "learning without knowing without room to learn how to know myself to be myself". This line shows that the speaker doesn't know himself or how to be himself. The speaker is struggling in the classroom. It is obvious that he does not like sitting at the desk when he uses the words "crunched-in" and "restraining". He's struggling with the language as well. This is shown when he goes back and forth between English and his native language.

The best line from the excerpt that expresses the theme that it can be difficult to know yourself and your place in the world is "learning without knowing without room to learn how to know myself to be myself". This line shows that the speaker doesn't know himself or how to be himself. The speaker is struggling in the classroom. It is obvious that he does not like sitting at the desk when he uses the words "crunched-in" and "restraining". He's struggling with the language as well. This is shown when he goes back and forth between English and his native language