How do the setting and period of the story “the devil and tom walker” make the story work? the story is set in new england in the eighteenth century, a time when people there were particularly superstitious about evil. the story is set in europe in the sixteenth century, a time when people there were very religious. the story is set in the 1700s in the dense forests of appalachia, a region where many indian massacres had occurred. the story is set in boston after the revolutionary war at a time when the new country of america was prospering.

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.