Answer:
The story is narrated by “we,” the townspeople in general, who also play a role in Miss Emily's tragedy. The townspeople respect Miss Emily as a kind of living monument to their glorified but lost pre-Civil War Southern past, but are therefore also highly judgmental and gossipy about her, sometimes hypocritically.
Explanation:
Despite the lack of a passage in this question, it is still possible to identify the option containing a subject of <em>ridicule.</em>
The correct answer is: Squealer calls the other animals ignorant.
"To ridicule" means to perform an action that undermines the reputation of someone or something in order to make them/it seem foolish. This is accomplished in the sentence as the subject, Squealer, humiliates the object, the other animals, by calling them "ignorant".
I believe it is true.
The definition of theme, “the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.”
