What author's purpose do the following lines from "Only Daughter" suggest? "...my father looked up and asked: 'Where can we get more copies of this for the
relatives?' Of all the wonderful things that happened to me last year, that was the most
wonderful."
A. to inform people about the literary achievements of Cisneros's life
B. to entertain people with Cisneros's ability to capture herself in writing
C. to persuade people to think that writing is an important profession
D. to express Cisneros's feelings about the importance of her father's approval

What do the excerpts have in common? both point out the tragic nature of situations in which children make journeys without their parents. both describe what immigrant children must do to survive when traveling to the united states. both explain why most children want to leave central america without their parents. both indicate the tragic problems and their consequences that children in central america must face.

This excerpt is repeated several times. what effect does this repetition have on the epic

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that.which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious.b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world.c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love.d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.