"Mandarins” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa Read the passage carefully. Write a constructed response in which you make a defensible claim
(argument) regarding how Akutagawa uses first-person point of view to express the narrator's complex
perspective. In your response, you should incorporate at least one piece of evidence from the text to
support your claim.

4. how does the speaker's comparison of sinners to aninsect (paragraph 7) contribute to the central idea of thetext? o a it emphasizes the negative view god has ofsinners and how inconsequential they are to him.o b it stresses the connection that exists between allof god's creatures, whether they be human orinsect.o c it suggests that sinners can change for the better,as insects are known to go throughtransformations.o d it portrays sinners as being just as prevalentaround the earth as the wide variety of insects.