"god’s arms! ” exclaimed one of these debauchees, "is the fellow then so dangerous to meet? in highways and in byways, street by street, i’ll seek him out, i vow it on god’s bones. now listen, fellows: let us three be one, each of us hold his hand up to the other, and each of us become the other’s brother, and we will kill this black betrayer, death, and kill the killer, by god’s holy breath, and that before the sun goes down on us! ” which statement best describes how the speaker in the excerpt is characterized?

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.