Parks' purpose in the above excerpt is <span>Parks' purpose is to entertain the audience by telling funny anecdotes. The answer is the second option. </span>The <span>first-person narration in this excerpt best helps readers understand the anger black people felt.</span>
The statement that best describes the major conflict in Amy Tan's "Two kinds" is D. It is a character vs. character conflict, as the mother wishes for an obedient daughter, while the daughter desires independence.
The narrator refuses to learn to play the piano, not because she doesn't' like it but because she is determined to show her mother she is no prodigy nor could become one, because she wants to be who she is and not what her mother tell her to be.
You would use "he" here because at a later part we encounter "he can graduate" which shows that the doer of the action is a male and therefore requires "he" to be used.
A comma should follow a dependent clause when the dependent clause come first in a sentence.
When seperating the two clauses, always use a comma.