Excerpt from “A Quilt of a country”

how does the use of paradox in this excerpt advance the authors viewpoint that national tragedies can produce a deeper sense of patriotism?

A. She lists a variety of groups (African, Americans, Mexican-Americans, and Irish-Americans) to suggest that people may identify more with their country of origin than they do with the country in which they live.

B. She highlights the distrust and unease that grows in the absence of a common enemy and the unity that arises when a country stands together against an opposing force.

C. She uses a metaphor to symbolize how communism affects people.

D. She contrasts the fault lines of world wars and the electrified fence of communism