Commonlit Behind Closed Doors: 'Colorism' in the Caribbean How does Robles’s inclusion of the story about the young girl getting shot at the disco contribute to the text?
A. In shows how violence as a result of one’s racial identity in the Dominican Republic is relatively uncommon.
B. It emphasizes the idea that colorism in the Dominican Republic has serious and violent consequences.
C. It proves that women are more effected by the culture of colorism that exists in the Dominican Republic.
D. It portrays citizens of the Dominican Republic as in denial of the problems of colorism in their country.

Read the excerpt from hemingway’s a farewell to arms. we parked the cars beyond the brickyard. the ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. there were three doctors that i knew. i talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them. which best describes hemingway’s style of writing in the excerpt? straightforward and simple, while still relating a lot of information to the reader long-winded and offering far too much information to the reader overly complicated, making it difficult to interpret and understand the text effortless and uncomplicated, with little meaning for the reader to interpret