Read the excerpt. but i did not want to shoot the elephant. i watched him beating his bunch of grass against his knees with the preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have. it seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him. … it was perfectly clear to me what i ought to do. i ought to walk up to within, say, twenty-five yards of the elephant and test his behavior. if he … took no notice of me, it would be safe to leave him until the mahout came back. what does the narrator in “shooting an elephant” by george orwell think of the elephant when he finds it? a. he thinks it needs to be retrained. b. he thinks it must be put down. c. he thinks it is no longer dangerous. d. he thinks it will go on another stampede.

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.