Question

Read the passage from The Fish I didn't Catch we are apt to speak of the sorrows of childhood as trifles in comparison with those of grow up people but we may depend upon it the young folks don't agree with us. Which best explains how knowing the definition of trifles is useful in understanding the passage? A) it shows that older people take younger people seriously B) it shows that older people often ignore or minimize children feelings C) it shows that children never fell true sorrow D) it show that If older people sorrow younger people can make them fell happy again

Answer 1

I think that it should be D

Answer 2

Which best explains how knowing the definition of trifles is useful in understanding the passage?  

The correct answer is B) it shows that older people often ignore or minimize children feelings.

• The meaning of the word trifles helps us to understand the little value grow up people give to the feelings of children. Its meaning get clearer when seeing the comparison to the importance is given to the feelings of grow up people. Although, In the Fish I didn’t Catch, written by John Greenleaf Whittier in 1843, the tone seems different. The narrator regrets that fact of not giving much importance to the feelings of children, because when adults pay attention to them children grow more aware of the world and how things really happen. That is the precise meaning of the Fish I didn’t Catch, that lesson taught him since he was a kid, not to boast before something is done. He thanked his uncle for paying attention to his feelings because that helped him grow.