What is the point of this splintered whole? What is the point of a nation in which Arab cabbies chauffeur Jewish passengers through the streets of New York—and in which Jewish cabbies chauffeur Arab passengers, too, and yet speak in theory of hatred, one for the other? In this excerpt, the use of the word splintered has which type of connotation?

positive
negative
abstract
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negative

Explanation:

The word "splintered" was used in the text as a negative connotation. A negative connotation is one that conveys a perjorative meaning, which detracts from something or someone. In the excerpt shown in the question above, the word "splintered" was used as a negative connotation, as it aimed to show how the intrigues between different nations is completely irrelevant, since we live in such a diverse country, where everyone depends on each other. The author reinforces this idea by showing that diversity makes the Arabs and Jews who live in America depend on each other and live together, despite the enmity between their countries of origin.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”

since he could see color, and nobody else could, he didn't find it fair that everyone else in the utopia couldn't see color but him and the giver : d