In the passage from rosa parks, the author develops the central idea that parks’s circumstances and background inspired her to keep her seat on the bus. which answer best describes how the author develops this idea throughout the text? the author alternates between details about parks’s day and details about the larger civil rights movement. 1. the author alternates between details about parks’s day and details about the larger civil rights movement. 2.the author describes the event and then lists all the factors that inspired parks to take action. 3. the author tells a chronological narrative about parks’s day and includes quotes from her about her state of mind. 4.the author describes the history of the civil rights movement and then shows parks’s place in it.