Select the sentence that best identifies the purpose of the excerpt. it was through him that my parents heard about mrs. gutzlaff's school and it was doubtless through his influence and means that my father got me admitted into the school. it has always been a mystery to me why my parents should take it into their heads to put me into a foreign school, instead of a regular orthodox confucian school … i can only account for the departure thus taken on the theory that as foreign intercourse with china was just beginning to grow, my parents, anticipating that it might soon assume the proportions of a tidal wave … this i take to be the chief aim that influenced my parents to put me into mrs. gutzlaff's mission school.
