The correct answer is C) it develops the passage’s major themes of empathy and understanding.
In this passage, Atticus, who represents morality in To Kill a Mockingbird, teaches Scout the importance of understanding and taking into account other people's points of view after she gets in trouble on her first day of school. Although Scout has a childish attitude at the beginning, she develops a more grown-up perspective throughout the story. Atticus helps her by giving Scout a lesson on how to be sympathetic and how to put oneself in another person's place in order to understand why a specific person thinks and behaves in a certain way.
