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Question 12 • CA-English Language Arts 8 B

Read the excerpt from "Broken Chain."Alfonso studied the magazine pictures of rock stars for a hairstyle. He liked the way Prince looked—and the bass player from Los Lobos. Alfonso thought he would look cool with his hair razored into a V in the back and streaked purple. But he knew his mother wouldn’t go for it. And his father, who was puro Mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy.”Soto most likely includes a characterization of both Alfonso and his father in this passage to show that

Answer
A
Alfonso wants his father’s approval.
B
Alfonso often disobeys his father.
C
they have similar personality traits.
D
they are often at odds with each other.
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