In the excerpt of "Notes of a Native Son", Baldwin opts to follow his father's saying that "Bitterness was folly", meaning that his current feelings of hatred towards the streets and people that were in them should be perceived as mere foolishness, and they should be consider as nothing permanent or sustancial.
Answer:
The ironed clothes and warm slippers signified loyalty to Amir.
Explanation:
He was there in the hand-washed and ironed clothes on the cane-seat chair, in the warm slippers left outside my door, in the wood already burning in the stove when I came down for breakfast. Everywhere I turned, I saw signs of his loyalty, his ....... unwavering loyalty. Ch. 8 pg. 114 <em>The Kite Runner</em>
A. Tone = How the author is feeling while writing