In "the landlady". a man on the train insists that Bath is a place where time seems to stand still • when showing By Weaver around the Bed & Breakfast, the landlady says not to rely on the grandfather clock since it stopped
working ages ago
• the landlady reveals that she was the one to 'stuff or perform taxidermy on her deceased pets
• the landlady admitted that the last entries in the guestbook were over 2 years old
All of these facts point to the idea that something sinister is going to happen
This is an example of:

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.