A monkey put his hand into a jar of cookies. He grasped as many as he
could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck
of the cookie jar. Unwilling to lose the cookies, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears
and bitterly lamented his disappointment.
What is a theme of the story?

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.