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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.
Explanation:
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.
In the story the House of Thebes, Eteocles defends Thebes against his brother, proving his loyalty to the country. Thus, option C is correct.
<h3 /><h3>What is the story of the House of Thebes?</h3>
The House of Thebes is about loyalty, betrayal, love, and freedom. The character Eteocles proves his loyalty to the country by fighting and killing his own brother to be seen as noble.
His unwavering decision to protect his country from his brother led to his death and established the fact that country and patriotism come before the family ties. Hence, Eteocles successfully exiled his brother.
Therefore, option C. Eteocles exiled his brother to prove loyalty.
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Of these four words, the one which is most likely to have a negative flavor or connotation is d)meander. To confuse is the state of being bewildered or unclear in one's mind about something. To distract is to the divided attention of an individual or a group away from the designated object on which the focus should be put on. A harangue is a long speech delivered in front of an audience. To meander is to walk around aimlessly without a fixed direction which contains a negative flavor or connotation.
It changed over time because women started to want to wear different things. With the bicycle it changed because the movement needed to be fast. Because of the design of the bicycle from the early 1800's women most likely wore what they wore out of the household, including long skirts, blouses up to the necks and huge sun hats.
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