Answer:
C. uses a respectful tone to show slavery's effect on slaves and slave owners
Explanation:
Answer: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo is a novel written in short poems. The story is told from the first person point of view of Xiomara Batista through her sophomore year of high school. She lives with her twin brother Xavier and her parents in New York.
Explanation: there
The day of the funeral arrived and there I was standing before the grave stone. It read ‘MARY ROBERT WILSON’. There were lots of people here and I felt uncomfortable. I was only five years old when she died. Back then, nothing made sense. All I remembered was people dressed in black with their heads down and no sound apart from the rushing wind. The woman, Mary, was my mother. It was so long ago, and I was so young that I didn’t know how to react. I just stood there holding on to my fathers hand smiling not knowing that I would never see my mum again. Not knowing that my life was about to change and there was nothing I could about. 10 years later I recall the moment of her death, of her grave and only now... I realised it was too late to cry.
