Say the child grew hungry. That babe started up bawling too loud. Sarah couldn’t stop to feed it. Couldn’t stop to soothe and quiet it down. She let it cry. She didn’t want to. She had no heart to croon to it.
–“The People Could Fly,”
Virginia Hamilton
What clue does the author include to let the reader know what bawling means?
The author says, “She let it cry,” so bawling means to cry.
The author says, “Say the child grew hungry,” so bawling means to be hungry.
The author says, “She had no heart to croon it,” so bawling means to be sad.
The author says, “She didn’t want to” quiet it, so bawling means to be playful.