Question 4 of 4
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 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 contrasts the somber mood of a funeral procession with the
happy memories Baldwin has about his father.
C. It interweaves elements of narrative and commentary to convey
the message that hatred is destructive.
D. It compares a term signifying the end of a musical piece with his
father's death to illustrate the finality of death.