The word father in the story has two meanings. First, it implies the love and protection of his biological father. Kevin’s father is a cheerful man who is always willing to help his son and provides a warm and loving home. Kevin’s teacher, on the other hand, is a cold man who ridicules Kevin. The author uses these two “fathers” to develop the theme of fatherly love in the story. Father Waldo represents discipline, restrictions, and strict social hierarchy. At school Kevin is encouraged to be ashamed of his father because of his lack of education and job as a barman. Ironically it’s his father and family who encourage him to value his education:
“We never got the chance,” his mother would say to him. “It wouldn’t have done me much good but your father could have bettered himself. He’d be teaching or something now instead of serving behind a bar. He could stand up with the best of them.”
Thus the author is setting up a choice for Kevin to make. He can choose to reject his roots and embrace the social order of the school or cling to his place as a member of the family. Kevin makes his choice in the end, when he lies to his father to protect him from the shame of not having the correct answers.
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A Touch!!! Your not smelling the object or hearing it or seeing it! the details are describing touch (the feeling) “bumpy surface” show the most sense of touch as well
B he is confident
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Answer: B. Plant life cannot grow along the shoreline.
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In the extract from Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside, Edward Abbey, the author, argues that it is because of the dam that plant life is dead. He says that due to the fluctuations in the water level, the plants either die from thirst or get drowned. This to him, is a stark contrast to when the area used to be full of plant life which also brought animal life meaning that there was an abundance of both fauna and Flora.
Now instead, the area is barren and Edward contends that it would therefore had been better that the dam was not built at all than it was built and effected the aforementioned.
