"Poor things," he used to say as he moved among them, "you will never know the world of beauty in which your mother lived, you will never be able to soar aloft in the free air, your lives must be spent in creeping about on a cabbage leaf and filling yourselves full of it each day. Poor things! Poor things!”
—“Caterpillar and the Butterfly,”
Elizabeth Harrison
Which human characteristic do the caterpillar’s words show?
sympathy
hostility
courage
friendship