Question

What information does this passage from To Kill A Mockingbird mainly convey?

“First of all,” he said, “If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—” “Sir?” “—until you climb into his skin and walk around it.”

a)It shows that Atticus is a successful lawyer.

b)It explains why Scout doubts her father’s advice.

c)It develops the passage’s major themes of empathy and understanding.

d)It develops the conflict between Scout and her teacher.

Answer 1

The answer is c . It shows how we need to view other people’s perspectives to truly understand who they are and how they view things .

Answer 2

The correct answer is C) it develops the passage’s major themes of empathy and understanding.

In this passage, Atticus, who represents morality in To Kill a Mockingbird, teaches Scout the importance of understanding and taking into account other people's points of view after she gets in trouble on her first day of school. Although Scout has a childish attitude at the beginning, she develops a more grown-up perspective throughout the story. Atticus helps her by giving Scout a lesson on how to be sympathetic and how to put oneself in another person's place in order to understand why a specific person thinks and behaves in a certain way.