What motivates Parker to get the tattoo on his back? How does he expectSarah Ruth to respond to it?
What will be an ideal response?
- Parker only has one place on his body without a tattoo—his back. Unlike all his other tattoos, this is the first time Parker wants to acquire more pictures on his body to please someone other than himself, as he thought: “He visualized having a tattoo put there that Sarah Ruth would not be able to resist—a religious subject” (par. 79). He is so disappointed that she will not look at his other tattoos that he wants something on his body that will “bring [her] to heel” (par. 80). He seems to honestly think that his wife will be happy to see art on the only place he lacks it. In this sense, a sympathetic reader may feel pity for such blindness.
It is a measure of how far Parker is from understanding his wife’s religious views that he can for even a moment entertain the notion that she will be pleased by the tattoo of Christ on his back. From their first meeting, “Vanity!” and “Idolatry!” have been among her favorite exclamations and she seems to enjoy describing the “judgment seat of God” for her husband (par. 77). She believes that any pictorial representation of Jesus is idolatry—worshipping an image rather than God himself. She is fanatical on this point of theology. “No man shall see his face,” she remarks as she adamantly declares that God is only spirit (par. 185). When she, of course, despises the tattoo and barely looks at it, “Parker was too stunned to resist” the beating that she gives him with her household broom.
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Noi/avere/due/compagno/caro
Which of the following is an example of repetition?
a. Zach studies the names of the famous World War II battles and generals every other night. He has flash cards and he reads the front and back of the cards aloud each time he studies. b. Letitia also has flash cards. She writes the names of the generals on the front of the card and on the backs, she writes down everything she knows about each general. She has to use 5x7-sized flash cards because each general has so much detail. c. Mallory has flash cards with the name of each of the generals she needs to know. On the back she has taped a picture of the general along with two or three important pieces of information. She has been reading the flash cards, front and back. Then, she has also had a friend quiz her out loud by showing her a picture and asking her the name of the general. She also writes out one or two important things about each battle when she studies. d. Hank has called a couple of classmates together. Each one has studied one or two of the important battles and then explains his/her information to the others in the group.
What happens to the man's first fire?
What will be an ideal response?
Complete each sentence with either “por” or “para”, depending on the context.
Yo le entrego la tarea de mi amiga al profesor. Mi amiga está enferma y la entrego ella.