Question

Read the excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes.” I am only a child yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and finding treaties, what a wonderful place this earth would be! At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us: • to not to fight with others. • to work things out. • to respect others. • to clean up our mess. • not to hurt other creatures. • to share, not be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? In this excerpt, the author argues that

Answer 1

In this excerpt the author is arguing  that we are taught the correct things in school (not fighting with other, working things out with them, respecting them and creatures and cleaning our mess) but when it comes to the environment, to poverty and society; the governments prefer to use its resources on war instead of the well being of the earth and the human beings among them.

Answer 2

B. adults must follow the advice they give children.