As for Mary Smith, she also had come to a period of change. She found herself needing to come home for visits from college less and less often. Today, home for a visit and attending the town fair, she found herself drawn to the adult conversations and activities rather than the rides and games she had so enjoyed just the previous year. Which answer best describes how the author has created the character?

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that.which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious.b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world.c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love.d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.