Question

Why might Carl Sandburg have placed an emphasis on politeness among the animals in the Committee of Sixty Six and in the interactions the animals have with humans in "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat"?

1) to show that animals are more polite than humans

2) to poke fun at the extreme politeness of the animals

3) to teach children how to interact with adults

4) to teach children how to interact with animals

Answer 1

i think the answer is: 3) to teach children how to interact with adults

Carl realized that many children around him basically treat the adults without any manners.
So, he used a comparison on how the animals in the wild interact with their adults in order to learn how to survive.