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The ties that ordinarily bind children to their homes were all suspended in my case. i found no severe trial in my departure. my home was charmless; it was not home to me; on parting from it, i could not feel that i was leaving anything which i could have enjoyed by staying.
how does the objective style of this excerpt add power to the story?
a. it relies on understatement to show that douglass had strong feelings toward his childhood home.
b. it uses strong imagery to show that douglass is unsentimental about his childhood home.
c. it presents douglass's feelings about his childhood home in a detached and
factual way.
d. it uses irony to show that douglass disliked his childhood home when he should have loved it.

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