Writing Assignment: Try to put yourself "in the shoes" of someone like Roger-someone who does something bad but is not really a bad person. Why does this person do whatever bad thing he or she does? Write a short story about this character and try to make the character sympathetic to the reader-in other words, create a character that the reader can understand and like despite his or her behavior. Imagine what this character would think and feel and describe him or her in detail. Come up with a different character and situation from those described in "Thank You, Ma'am."

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.