Read the excerpt from chapter 11 of the awakening. edna began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul. the physical need for sleep began to overtake her; the exuberance which had sustained and exalted her spirit left her and yielding to the conditions which crowded her in. which best captures the image conveyed by the phrases “pressing into her soul” and “conditions which crowded her in”? a. an open air porch b. a vast untamed ocean c. a bed heavy with blankets d. a small prison cell

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.