Gr 9 Qtr3 Writing Assessment 2020-2021
Authors want their readers to identify and connect with the universal themes in their stories.
Themes such as love, hate, envy, jealousy, hope, fear, or power are all are expressed through
carefully crafted characters, conflicts, dialogue, and settings.
After reading the selection, Arachne, decide the universal theme(s) the author wanted to
convey and write a literary analysis that defends your thematic choice with textual evidence.
Manage your time carefully so that you can:
Read the passages;
Plan your response;
Write your response; and
Revise and edit your response.
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Be sure to:
Include a claim;

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.