Read the sentence below and answer the question.
“as you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
what is atticus claiming makes a white person trash?
a)growing up in poverty
b)taking advantage of black persons
c)their manners
d)being a descendent of a morally suspect family

b) taking advantage of black persons.

In this excerpt, Atticus is trying to prepare Jem and Scout for the racism that they will witness as they grow up. However, he does not want them to become racists themselves. Therefore, Atticus tells them that they will start to notice that white people take advantage of black people all the time. However, he thinks the people who do so are trash. The thing that makes these white people trash is the fact that they take advantage of black people.

(d) alice notices that the glass is melting away. because that aint real

1. the details that would clarify the authors purpose for writing would be after the "haley collected used soccer jersey and sent them to guatemalan children." part, he would say, "and you can also donate today to save ". so far in the text, you can see no such thing. if, near the end the author persuades you to donate to guatemalans, then you know that the author's reason to write is to persuade you.

2. what details would make the text more engaging is to see the guatemalan children's reaction to getting free jerseys.

3. the details that convey the author's attitude would be an opinion by the author, for example, if he said, "haley was a very nice girl " or, you can find the attitude by finding parts of haley's personality that he highlights. you can strengthen your tones by using more descriptive words, and simplify long sentences as much as you can.

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