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(8)\hang the boy, cant i never learn anything? aint he played me tricks enough like that for me to be looking out for him by this time? but old fools is the biggest fools there is. cant learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. (9)but my goodness, he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know whats coming? he pears to know just how long he can torment me before i get my dander up, and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, its all dowagain and i cant hit him a lick. i aint doing my duty by that boy, and thats the lords truth, goodness knows. (10)spare the rod and spile the child, as the good book says. im a laying up sin and suffering for us both, i know. hes full of the old scratch, but laws-a-me! hes my own dead sisters boy, poor thing, and i aint got the heart to lash him, somehow. (11)every time i let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time i hit him my old heart most breaks. well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the scripture says, and i reckon its so. hell play hookey this evening, and ill just be obleeged to make him work, tomorrow, to punish him. (12)its mighty hard to make him work saturdays, when all the boys is having holiday, but he hates work more than he hates anything else, and ive got to do some of my duty by him, or ill be the ruination of the child.\
the author most likely uses the third person point-of-view
a for the reader to focus mainly on toms thoughts and actions.
b for the reader to have an objective view of all of the characters.
c for the reader to focus mainly on aunt pollys thoughts and actions.
d for the reader to predict what will happen during the rest of the story.

Explanation:

The passage is from Aunt Polly's perspective (third - person limited, focusing on her thoughts). Option A is wrong as it's not about Tom's thoughts. Option B is wrong as it's a subjective view (Aunt Polly's) not objective. Option D is wrong as the passage is about Aunt Polly's internal thoughts about Tom, not for prediction. Option C focuses on Aunt Polly's thoughts and actions, which matches the passage.

Answer:

C. for the reader to focus mainly on Aunt Polly's thoughts and actions.