COMPARE AND CONTRAST: Nellie Bly wants to access a "mad-house" from which other people would want to escape. Imagine that the
speaker of "Sympathy” is an inmate being wrongly held there and that
Bly conducts an interview with the inmate. Write a brief account as Bly
might for her newspaper. Be sure to show the contrasts between the
two situations, relying on evidence from both texts.

The answer to this question would be:

Nellie Bly entered the mental facility "undercover" with the sole purpose of exposing the neglect and terrible conditions the patients faced. Explanation:

fond of fighting is the answer

the purpose of the heading in the passage is to identify who is telling the story.

this excerpt is part of the book sugar changed the world (2010) written by marc aronson and marina budhos. as the book has been written by two people, the heading "marc" indicates that this specific excerpt is being narrated by aronson. in the fragment, marc describes his grandfather's story after hearing it from his cousin. however, there are other excerpts where budhos is the one that tells the story of her family.

aronson and budhos, who are husband and wife in real life, decided to write sugar changed the world when they found out how sugar, which had an important role in slavery and economy, changed their ancestors' lives.