1. What can be inferred by the following quote from Ponyboy and how he is shaped by
the setting? (AKS 3)
"I'm really home in bed, I thought. It's late and both Darry and Sodapop are up
Darry's cooking breakfast, and in a minute he and Soda will come in an drag me
out of bed and wrestle me down and tickle It 11
go
like the usual weekend
morning. tried telling myself that while I lay on the cold
rock floor, wrapped up in
Dally's jacket..."

Ponyboy likes wrestling with his brothers.

Ponyboy is comfortable at the church

Ponyboy is homesick
.
Ponyboy doesn't like doing the dishes.

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.