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. a. it reveals that death of baldwin's father was a major news story at the time. b. it links personal and national events to show the destructiveness of hatred. c. it juxtaposes two opposing events; the death of his father and birth of his sister. d. it uses time order words and phrases to order the sequence of ideas.