But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red, and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things: priceless lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held-so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place-who knows?The primary purpose of the passage is to:

Correct answer: D. Purport that all people have some value

  • A. Describe the contents of bags
  • B. Suggest people are not predisposed to prejudice
  • C. Recommend all people share wealth with others
  • D. Purport that all people have some value

Explanation

The passage uses the metaphor of bags to show that everyone has a mix of experiences and memories, suggesting that all people have inherent value. This is the primary purpose of the passage.

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