The correct answer is A) it makes readers understand the story's theme of cultural conflict.
The statement that most accurately describes the intended aesthetic impact of this resolution is "it makes readers understand the story's theme of cultural conflict."
The text helps the reader to understand the cultural conflict in that it refers to the situation when the people were forced to move away from the land where their ancestors had lived for years. This really impacted them. Although nobody wanted to move, the author mentions how he was curious about the new culture and language. Schools and clothing were very different and somehow attractive to the point of rejecting the ancestors' culture to embrace the new one.
"There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by a stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle". What is the narrator trying to convey by putting "and with sadness I have watched it in others" in parenthesis?
A.The narrator is admitting that he can recognize "cruelty" because he was "mean" himself
B. The narrator is erasing some of his own guilt by stating that others possess "cruelty" too
C. The narrator is indicating that he feels victimized by "cruelty."
D.The narrator is hoping that no one will remember his "cruelty" toward Doodle
Answer:
B. The narrator is erasing some of his own guilt by stating that others possess "cruelty" too
Explanation:
The narrator is trying to ease se of his own guilt by putting "and with sadness I have watched it in others" in parenthesis.
According to the excerpt, the narrator talks about feeling cruelty and also noting with sadness that it was in others too.