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Number 14 Ajax Street,
New Jersey.
September 10, 2020.
Hey man, how are you doing?
Hope you've finally learned how to play that new video game I sent for you.
Well, remember I told you about a prize giving ceremony I was going to attend in my school? Yes, that one. I was surprised when I won two prizes. One for being well behaved and the other for being the neatest, I wasn't expecting either because I don't think I'm the neatest or best behaved, I just try to avoid trouble and look decent.
You can imagine my shock when I heard my name where I was sitting and all eyes were on me. I walked unsteadily to collect the prize and it was the longest twenty seconds of my life. I was proud of the awards though.
When I get back to town, I'll give you more details. Goodbye, for now.
Your friend,
Michael
Hello. This question is incomplete. The full question is:
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.
Answer:
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.
The detail from the text by Hayes Davis about learning how to drive from his father that best supports the answer to Part A's question about theme is the following:
D) he never held praise too tightly, that he / knew confidence as a vested commodity / its installation as vital as anything fathers give sons. (Lines 18-20)
<h3>What is the theme of the poem by Hayes Davis?</h3>
In Part A, we are asked what the theme of the poem is. The best answer is "Parents play an important role in helping their children view themselves positively."
The speaker uses his experience of learning how to drive from his father to show how he learned to be confident from him. The praises his father would pay him helped build a solid foundation for self-confidence.
<h3>Details supporting the theme</h3>
With the information above in mind, we can select option D as the one that best supports the answer to Part A. It is in option D that the lines show how the father's praises and the son's confidence are deeply connected.
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