The authors support their claim and purpose (D.) by using words with negative connotations, such as hacked and merciless.
In this excerpt, <u>the authors are describing the feeding of sugarcane</u>, <u>which implied working very hard</u>. They describe it as a bad experience since cut cane had to be fed by enslaved men and women who had to deal with dangerous working conditions and could not even rest. For that reason, <u>the authors use words with negative connotations</u>, that is to say <u>words that are used to denote a bad feeling or an unpleasant emotion</u>. Besides 'hacked' and 'merciless, other words with negative connotation are 'dangerous' and 'bad'.
<span>The phrase which signals a contrast between ideas about marriage is "on the other hand" because the part before was about the American consideration and ideas about love, while the part following "on the other hand" explain why in other cultures the idea of romantic love is not at the base of marriage.</span>
