What is the author trying to show with the statement, “I went to sleep in a hoodlum’s jacket, with a gun lying in my hand”? Question 8 options:

Johnny's life has changed.

Ponyboy is tired and doesn't care that he is sleeping next to a gun.

Ponyboy is worries someone will attack him in his sleep.

Ponyboy's life has changed.

In a short story the narrator's word choice

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.

Which two statements about first-person narration are generally true? the narrator can be a witness or a reteller of events. the narrator always provides reliable information. o the narrator accurately knows past and future events. the narrator is a character in the story. the narrator knows everything about all characters.