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9 October, 15:00

Read this excerpt from James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son":

On the 29th of July, in 1943, my father died. On the same day, a few hours later, his last child was born. Over a month before this, while all our energies were concentrated in waiting for these events, there had been, in Detroit, one of the bloodiest race riots of the century. A few hours after my father's funeral, while he lay in state in the undertaker's chapel, a race riot broke out in Harlem.

Which sentence best explains how the structure of the excerpt supports the author's purpose?

A. It juxtaposes two opposing events: the death of his father and birth of his sister.

B. It links personal and national events to show the destructiveness of hatred.

C. It reveals that the death of Baldwin's father was a major news story at the time.

D. It uses time order words and phrases to order the sequence of ideas.