There can be as many alternate readings as there are readers.
The definition to a claim statement is when the claim is essentially arguable
To support the persons position proving why he made certain points in the story
He believed
that Leopold and Loeb were not receiving a fair trial because they were poor.
<span>Of all the
statements in the excerpt above only one references a general feeling about an
entire situation being discussed. While
some statements include how Darrow felt about a certain topic, only the third
sentence is a description of a viewpoint on the overall matter at hand.</span>
This is one of things only you could answer, but it seems you just don´t understand the question so I will explain it.
Its saying if you could give away one part of your personality (for example, always happy, sad) and replace it with something else, which would you get rid of and replace it with? why?
For example let's say my traits were : Sad, depressed, anxious
I want to remove depressed and replace it with : Sad, happy, anxious
And for the ¨why¨, ¨I don't want to be just sad anymore so I would replace depressed with happy so at least I can be happy sometimes.¨
Hope this helps.