Answer:The speaker describes the flowers as beautiful but also describes them as caged and plucked by people. He knows that they're the preferred option, but he'd rather be free as a weed than be wanted as a flower.
Explanation:
The flower and the weed symbolize two different lives and ways of being treated the speaker could choose, but he'd rather be free and alone than have a life a certain way.
2. Southern society was complex and diverse with both good and bad people unlike Northern stereotypes showed.
3. Many kind slave owners and their slaves developed deep friendships.
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<span>a system or thing used as an example to follow</span>