How can individuals in today society better except perspectives that differ from their own?

1.the hosts on two opposing mountains stood,  

2.thick as the foliage of the waving wood;  

3.between them an extensive valley lay,  

4.o'er which the gleaming armour pour'd the day,  

5.when from the camp of the philistine foes,

6. dreadful to view, a mighty warrior rose; in the dire deeds of bleeding battle skill'd,

the anecdote makes readers feel sorry for the man’s lack of heritage, then reminds readers that the man has an equally valuable heritage.

edmund spenser and john bunyan also influenced hawthorne. : )

i hope this you with your work : )

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)