Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son.That bleakly memorable morning I hated the unbelievable streets and the Negroes and whites who had, equally, made them that way. But I knew that it was folly, as my father would have said, this bitterness was folly. What emerging solution to his problem does Baldwin recognize?
Answer
A
The riots were necessary.
B
Memory serves an important purpose.
C
Feeling hatred is unproductive.
D
His father was right to be bitter.
Explanation
Baldwin recognizes that his bitterness is “folly,” echoing his father’s judgment. He understands that hating both the streets and the people who shaped them will not solve the problem. The emerging solution is to recognize that hatred is unproductive, which matches choice C.
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