I thought I could outrun my grief, but looking back now, I see it had followed me everywhere. It was there in Boston.
It was there in Amarillo and in Seattle. It was even here in
Charlotte. I carried it with me like an overstuffed backpack.
How does the author's use of parallelism most clearly support the central
idea?
A. It makes readers consider how grief affected the speaker in each
town.
B. It calls attention to the similarities between grief and a backpack
because it was so overstuffed.
C. It illustrates how the grief is like a backpack because the speaker
carried it with him everywhere.
D. It emphasizes the number of places the speaker's grief followed
him.