Read this passage from "notes of a native son," in which the narrator reflects
on his father:
in my mind's eye i could see him, sitting at the window,
locked up in his terrors; hating and fearing every living soul
including his children who had betrayed him, too, by
reaching toward the world which had despised him.
in what way does this scene show one of the central ideas of james
baldwin's essay?

if you don't mind posting the paragraph so i could read it that would a lot. (;

stating your point of the article

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.

well there are a bunch of different possibilities so your gonna have to be a bit more specific