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In these excerpts from *The Road* by Jack London, which sentence best demonstrates the author's attempt to persuade readers to be as compassionate as poor people are?
At other houses the doors were slammed in my face, cutting short my politely and humbly couched request for something to eat. At one house they did not open the door. I stood on the porch and knocked, and they looked out at me through the window. They even held one sturdy little boy aloft so that he could see over the shoulders of his elders the tramp who wasn't going to get anything to eat at their house.
It began to look as if I should be compelled to go to the very poor for my food. The very poor constitute the last sure recourse of the hungry tramp. The very poor can always be depended upon. They never turn away the hungry. Time and again, all over the United States, have I been refused food by the big house on the hill, and always have I received food from the little shack down by the creek or marsh, with its broken windows stuffed with rags and its tired-faced mother broken with labor. Oh, you charity-mongers! Go to the poor and learn, for the poor alone are the charitable. They neither give nor withhold from their excess.
There was one house in particular where I was turned down that evening. The porch windows opened on the dining room, and through them I saw a man eating pie—a big meat-pie. I stood in the open door, and while he talked with me, he went on eating. He was prosperous, and out of his prosperity had been bred resentment against his less fortunate brothers.
Answer (2)
In Jack London's The Road , the sentence highlighting the poor's inherent charity conveys the author's call for compassion. The text contrasts wealthy individuals with the generous nature of the impoverished. London urges readers to learn from the poor's willingness to share despite their own difficulties. ;
In Jack London's The Road , the line emphasizing the poor's charitable nature is most effective in urging compassion. London contrasts the indifference of the wealthy with the generosity of the poor, suggesting that those with less often give more. This showcases an important lesson on empathy and the value of learning from the less fortunate.
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