The correct answer is this: SHE DIVULGES HER DISDAIN OF HIS SUPERFICIALITY.
To be superficial means to be shallow, to lack depth. From the passage given above, the man in the passage show his ignorance by revealing that he has never seen white elephants before and the reply that the girl gave him shows that, she dislike his ignorance in such matter.
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Read this excerpt from james baldwin's "notes of a native son":the day of my father's funeral had also been my nineteenth birthday. as we drove him to the graveyard, the spoils of injustice, anarchy, discontent, and hatred were all around us. it seemed to me that god himself had devised, to mark my father's end, the most sustained and brutally dissonant of codas. and it seemed to me, too, that the violence which rose all about us as my father left the world had been devised as a corrective for the pride of his eldest son.which sentence best explains how the structure of the excerpt supports the author's purpose?
a.it ties baldwin's father's funeral to his birthday and shows that the author is angry that his father died on that day. b.it compares a term signifying the end of a musical piece with his father's death to illustrate the finality of death. c.it contrasts the somber mood of a funeral procession with the happy memories baldwin has about his father. d.it interweaves elements of narrative and commentary to convey the message that hatred is destructive.
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d. it interweaves elements of narrative and commentary to convey the message that hatred is destructive.
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The text above was taken from the autobiography of a black author, who wanted to show the violence, intolerance and injustices that racism caused in a society. He presents these themes well in the excerpt shown above, where the structure allows the author to interweave elements of narrative and commentary to convey the message that hate is destructive and how it shook his family and transformed a moment of celebration into a moment of mourning.
A. present the characters and the situation
Answer: The writer talks about their perspective on The Narrow Fellow. It starts out mild, then the last stanza almost disses the Narrow Fellow, as read in ' And Zero at the Bone '. It's admirable since the Narrow is described with the most descriptive words, and it almost seems that the Narrow Fellow is a good person. It's also terrifying since it has quite a volta in the last stanza.
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