Read this sentence from "the final assault." my thirty-pound load seemed to crush me downward and stifled all enthusiasm, but when i turned on the oxygen and breathed it deeply, the burden seemed to lighten and the old urge to get to grips with the mountain came back. in this sentence, the narrator gives an example of why oxygen is vital to climbers on mt. everest. how does the narrator develop this concept in the rest of the narrative? a: by giving details about how oxygen equipment can malfunction b: by showing instances where a lack of oxygen affects climbers c: by explaining how climbers carry their oxygen equipment d: by describing times when climbers used oxygen while climbing

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.