Part a: which two of the following statements best describe the central ideas of the text? a poor families are just going to keep growing, so it’s best to leave them to starve themselves out. b in order to control population and poverty, the children of the poor should be sold as food. c any other proposal would be a waste of time to listen to. d the social situation during this time is dire, with poverty rampant throughout the kingdom, particularly in ireland. e a person is not measured by how productive, costly, or useful they can be to larger society. f the poor should get out of the streets and make more of an effort to find employment, rather than beg for their food.

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).