Which sentence from the novel best reflects the story's gothic nature?
a. "the ancient teachers of this science . . promised impossibilities and performed nothing" (26).
b. i kept my workshop of filthy creation; my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment (38).
c. it was a most beautiful season; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest, or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage . . (38).
d. thus ended a day memorable to me; it decided my future destiny (28).

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.