In "The Slump," John Updike uses the national pastime, baseball, as the setting to explore one individual's frustration with the world. The story is told by a professional ballplayer who finds himself, for no identifiable reason, unable to hit as well as he once did. He thinks about why this might be, but not very deeply; for the most part, he accepts this slump as his fate and considers what it says about life in general. The story depicts the superstitious nature of athletes in the way that its narrator hopes for better days without having any hope that anything he can do would make his luck return.
Rainsford imitates the foxes and cats he has hunted in the past, staying in an impenetrable state of alert.
<h3>Why does he need to imitate these animals?</h3>
- Because he is being hunted.
- Because he needs to survive.
- Because he needs to think like prey to escape the hunt.
Rainsford has hunted many animals and knows how they behave after observing them for a long time. He decided he needed to imitate these behaviors to survive and for that reason, he chose to imitate cats and foxes.
This is because these animals were more instinctive, observed the environment cautiously, and emphasized the use of smell and hearing to stay in a constant state of alert.
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B. that they are replacing the religious laws known as the Ten Commandments
