Read the excerpt from My Story. It was unfair to segregate us. But neither the bus company nor the mayor nor the city commission
ers would listen. I remember having discussions about how a boycott of the city buses would really hurt the bus company in its pocketbook. But I also remember asking a few people if they would be willing to stay off the buses to make things better for us, and them saying that they had too far to go to work. So it didn’t seem as if there would be much support for a boycott. Which piece of information could probably only come from Rosa Parks’s first-person narration of the story? Segregation on buses was an unfair practice that the bus company was following. A boycott against the bus company would hurt the bus company financially. Rosa Parks asked a few people if they were willing to boycott the buses. The mayor and the city commissioner were unwilling to listen to Rosa Parks’s friends.
Answer: Rosa Parks asked a few people if they were willing to boycott the buses.
Explanation:
A first-person narrative refers to a mode of storytelling whereby the storyteller recounts events fmthatnhas occured from their own point of view and thus use frst person like "I, our, or us".
In this case, the piece of information that could probably only come from Rosa Parks’s first-person narration of the story is that Rosa Parks asked a few people if they were willing to boycott the buses. This can be depicted where it was written that "I also remember asking a few people if they would be willing to stay off the buses... "
Sentence 4 is the one that uses the correct format for a parenthetical citation.
Parenthetical citation is used in an essay or a paper in order<u> to indicate that the information presented comes from another source</u>. It works as a way of giving credit to the real author. Furthermore, in a parenthetical citation,<u> both the author and page number are cited in parentheses and always in that order</u>. <u>Sentence 4</u> is the correct option since it is the only one that <u>provides first the author and then the page number in parentheses</u>.