The Gift of the Magi:” Which sentence from the passage provides the best example of suspense within the story? Question 20 options: a) “Jim was never late.” b) “The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it.” c) “He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.” d) “Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake.”

(the black cat poem) where does the writer fail to support her points with evidence? what evidence from the story would you suggest adding to support these points?

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.

We shall not always plant while others reap