Z Points
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?

- "in the declaration of independence, it is stated that all people have certain rights that can't be taken away. when the government fails to protect these rights, the people have no choice but to remove that government and replace it with a government that will do its job and protect the people's rights."

in the section of speech is not

i think ethier way not sure

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.