Read this excerpt from james baldwin's "notes of a native son". on the 29th of july, in 1943, my father died. on the same day, a few hours later, his last child was born. over a month before this, while all our energies were concentrated in waiting for these events, there had been , in detroit, one of the bloodiest race riots of the century. a few hours after my father's funeral, while he lay in state in the undertaker's chapel, a race riot broke out in harlem. a. it reveals that death of baldwin's father was a major news story at the time. b. it links personal and national events to show the destructiveness of hatred. c. it juxtaposes two opposing events; the death of his father and birth of his sister. d. it uses time order words and phrases to order the sequence of ideas.

B. It links personal and national events to show the destructiveness of hatred.

Explanation:

With this sentence we can find the perfect reason behind enunciations like "shamefulness, revolt, discontent, and scorn "… unfairness, insurgency, discontent, and contempt “…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 are the principle and most grounded disputes showed in the concentrate, all the abhor, and moping that the maker suffered over being a Negro around at that point.

a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

explanation:

mark brainliest and have a great day!

boccaccio employs the voice of his narrator dioneo to represent his ideas on the tension between masculinity and femininity.  while dioneo excites the members of the brigata and recognizes women for their unique skills and independent ideas, he concludes the decameron with a story reminiscent of the society from which these young aristocrats escaped, revealing misogynistic overtones.  dioneo boccaccio is able to explore the gender disparity which is inherent in 14th century florentine society.