Why does marian go to the nursing home in "a visit of charity"?

In "A Visit of Charity" by Eudora Welty, Marian goes to the nursing home to gain points for her charity work with the Campfire Girl's mission. She had no idea about what kind of people she would find in there and that she would want to leave the place soon after.

Because she wants to earn points from the campfire girls

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.