"my father asked me abruptly, you'd rather write than preach, wouldn't you? " why does this conversation surprise the narrator? a. because his father was senile at this point in his life b. because the narrator had already decided to be a preacher c. because it was the first conversation he had with his father in years d. because it is the only real question his father ever asked him the answer is d!

D. because it is the only real question his father ever asked him .

Explanation:

Each day of our lives we settle on choices and decisions, regardless of whether they are positive or negative for us. To him composing is everything, he doesn't need sharpness to murder his dad so he said he needs to turn into an author since composing draws out reality in nearly everything.

We as a whole have that specific thing that we want to do and for Baldwin, it was to write. He was able to express himself through his writings, just like we express ourselves in other ways.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.