One of the most critical problems【C1】______ black and other minority Americans today is the difficulty of entering【C2】______ society without【C3】______ their own racial and ethnic heritage. The process can be an agonizing one, and it sometimes【C4】______ disaster. On June 12,1985,Edmund Perry was shot and killed【C5】______ attempting to rob a plainclothes police officer. Perry was【C6】______ and a resident of Harlem; he was【C7】______ a graduate of one of the nation's finest high schools and was preparing to enter Stanford University【C8】______ a full scholarship. The Two Worlds of Edmund Perry relates the details of this star student's【C9】______ life and examines the unique pressure of【C10】______ between two radically different social realisms. This sense of doubleness experienced by many nonwhite Americans makes it difficult【C11】______ a stable personal【C12】______ From outside, the author offers a solution【C13】______ the problem.【C14】______ in the rural South, she learned two languages-one to be used【C15】______ speaking to family and friends,【C16】______ when speaking to whites. Years later, after enrolling in a writing course at a northern university, she attempted to negotiate a way【C17】______ her own language and the language of others: I could not-in the process of composing-use the language of the old time, yet I couldn't imagine myself in the language.【C18】______ however, she learned to shape her own experience in her own words. Writing, she suggests, provided a valuable tool【C19】______ helping to【C20】______ a balance between her two worlds. 【C1】