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which excerpt from black boy best illustrates the effect that society has on wrights father?
my mother warned me not to be fooled by my fathers friendly manner; she told me that the judge might ask me questions, and if he did i must tell him the truth.
back at home my mother wept again and talked complainingly about the unfairness of the judge who had accepted my fathers word.
finally we could no longer pay the rent for our dingy flat; the few dollars that granny had left us before she went home were gone.
from the white landowners above him there had not been handed to him a chance to learn the meaning of loyalty, of sentiment, of tradition.
The last option shows how society (white landowners) denied Wright's father opportunities to learn values like loyalty, sentiment, and tradition, highlighting society's impact on him. The other options focus on family - related events or mother's warnings rather than society's effect on the father.
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From the white landowners above him there had not been handed to him a chance to learn the meaning of loyalty, of sentiment, of tradition.