Question

Read the excerpt from Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.

Reverend Buckminster sighed. "It doesn't matter if it's true. It matters what people think. It matters that my congregation can tell me what to think when my son goes out to visit a Negro girl on Malaga Island. It doesn't matter at all how she got you out there."
"It matters to me," Turner whispered.
"Speak up!"
"It matters to me."
In this excerpt, the reader is able to see how important Lizzie’s friendship is to Turner. Which explains the factor that is most likely affecting Turner’s perspective in this excerpt?
Turner’s age is not allowing him to fully understand his father’s concerns over the racial conflict.
Turner’s location is not allowing him to see that racial conflict can occur anywhere.
Turner’s morals are not allowing him to take part in the racial conflict that is occurring.
Turner’s limited education is not allowing him to understand exactly what racial conflict is.

Answer 1

Answer: A

Turner’s age is not allowing him to fully understand his father’s concerns over the racial conflict.

Step-by-step explanation:

Turner values his friendship with Lizzie and as such he does not understand why his father and the community disapprove of his friendship with a black girl. Even when his father Reverend Buckminster tried to explain to him why he was personally against their friendship because of what people will think as well as the bad relationship between Malaga Island and Phippsburg, the fact is that as a kid he can not fully grasp what racial conflict really is.

Answer 2

The factor that is most likely affecting Turner’s perspective in this excerpt is A: Turner’s age is not allowing him to fully understand his father’s concerns over the racial conflict.

Step-by-step explanation:

“Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy” by “Gary D. Schmidt” is a historic novel. Turner Buckminster is a minister’s son, but he doesn’t behave the same way. He became friends with Lizzie Bright Griffin, but the community and his father doesn’t approve of their friendship as she is from a poor island community.

Soon they come to know that people want to transform Lizzie’s island to a tourist place, so they want people to vacate the island. Turner is immature to understand all of this. Thus, option A is the correct one.