It is altogether a remarkable mistake for you to believe !
never complied with your wishes. "always contrary" was
really not my basic principle where you were concerned, as
you believe and as you reproach me. on the contrary: if i
had obeyed you less, i am sure you would have been much
better with me.
- franz kafka, "letter to his father"

what contradiction in kafka's relationship with his father does kafka bring up in this passage from "letter to his father"?

a. kafka believes that his father would have been happier if kafka
had been more miserable.

b. kafka believes that his father thinks kafka makes too many errors
and mistakes.

c. kafka believes his father would have respected him more if kafka
had obeyed him less.

d. kafka believes that his father would have felt bad if he knew kafka
was such an unhappy man.

9. types of literature that are told from a point of view include autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, and journals.

Which two lines in this excerpt from arthur conan doyle's "the contest" suggest that emperor nero was ruthless? each choice is in brackets. [an hour later the shepherd was well on his way to his mountain home, and about the same time the emperor, having received the chaplet of olympia for the incomparable excellence of his performance, was making inquiries with a frowning brow as to who the insolent person might be who had dared to utter such contemptuous criticisms.] [“bring him to me here this instant,” said he, “and let marcus with his knife and branding-iron be in attendance.”] [“rumours! ” cried the angry nero. “what do you mean, arsenius? i tell you that the fellow was an ignorant upstart, with the bearing of a boor and the voice of a peacock.] [i have half a mind to burn their town about their ears so that they may remember my visit.”] [“i conquered! you are mad, arsenius. what do you mean? ”] [it is whispered that for once the great god pan has condescended to measure himself against a mortal.”]

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. there was a moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister, had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which i was standing from the white man standing just behind me, and to convey this with a speed, and in a language, that the white man could not possibly understand, and that, indeed, he cannot understand, until today. he cannot afford to understand it. this understanding would reveal to him too much about himself, and smash that mirror before which he has been frozen for so long. this excerpt from "if black english isn't a language, then tell me, what is? " is significant because -select all that apply- hughes imagines himself as a black slave. hughes uses black english to emphasize his argument. hughes uses a historical example to explain the origins of language. hughes explains the significance that black english holds for white people.