Read the passage below, and think about the author’s purpose for writing it.
I am discouraged about learning to speak the English language, and I do not think anybody takes much trouble to learn ours. So we cats are confined to the society of each other, which keeps us from knowing as much as we might. And it is very lonely, too, in a place where there are so few cats kept as in Amherst. If it were not for Mrs. Hitchcock’s cat and Judge Dickinson’s, I might forget how to use my tongue.
What is MOST LIKELY the author’s purpose for writing this passage?
1. to explain a confusing concept
2. to represent a specific point of view
3. to express an idea about people
4. to give an opinion about an issue