Which best describes the conflict between scrooge and the two charity men in "stave i: marley's ghost"?
a. the men want scrooge to provide cratchit with better pay and working conditions, but scrooge insists that cratchit is lucky to have a job at all and should be grateful.
b. the men want scrooge to take down marley's name from the countinghouse, but scrooge insists on leaving it up because it is good for business.
c. the men want scrooge to give money to the poor, but scrooge insists that the prisons and workhouses can provide the poor with basic necessities.
d. the men want scrooge to go to christmas dinner with them, but scrooge insists that anyone who celebrates christmas is a fool.

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.