The day of my father's funeral had also been my nineteenth birthday. as we drove him to the graveyard, the spoils of injustice, anarchy, discontent, and hatred were all around us. it seemed to me that god himself had devised, to mark my father's end, the most sustained and brutally dissonant of codas. and it seemed to me, too, that 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 sentence best explains how the structure of the excerpt supports the author's purpose? which sentence best explains how the structure of the excerpt supports the author's purpose? a. it contrasts the somber mood of a funeral procession with the happy memories baldwin has about his father. b. it interweaves elements of narrative and commentary to convey the message that hatred is destructive. c. it compares a term signifying the end of a musical piece with his father's death to illustrate the finality of death. d. it ties baldwin's father's funeral to his birthday and shows that the author is angry that his father died on that day.

B) It interweaves elements of narrative and commentary to convey the message that hatred is destructive.

Explanation: In the given excerpt we can see a young man narrating the events and feelings of the day of his father's funeral (which was also his nineteenth birthday). The author's purpose in this excerpt is to given the message that hatred is extremely destructive, in order to do that the author uses elements of narrative ("The day of my father's funeral had also been my nineteenth birthday") and commentary (" It seemed to me that God himself had devised, to mark my father's end, the most sustained and brutally dissonant of codas").

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.