<span>D.) Since
segregation laws did not provide equal protections or liberties to
non-whites, the ruling was not consistent with the 14th Amendment.
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The narrator, is the protagonist and she starts explaining that she is a teenager. She knows what the latest styles are, she reads the current editorials, she listens to the radio... She wants us to know that she is not a silly girl. In fact, she is a rational thinker. But in fact, when the boy takes her hand and invite her to the sakiting rink, she abandons all her rationality and she believes when he says that he will call her. When days pass by and he doesn't, she says " I'm not so really dumb".
All that, indicates the conflict: she is a sixteen year old, naive and soft in character behind that tough exterior.
The fact that as he states it himself, he made sure to use examples from actual writers about the actual meaning and usage of a word. In other words, he quoted their writings to illustrate the meaning of the words as they were used by actual people.
Thus, the meaning and use of the words was no longer just theoretical but practical as well. He was also very prescriptive, meaning that he asserted his opinions by using humor or judgment on the intrinsic quality of the notions the words were describing. Here that can be clearly seen by the way he uses the adjective “undefiled” (meaning not dirtied) to refer to the only variety of the English language than in his view is the proper one.
