“Lucynell don’t even know what a hotel is,” the old woman muttered. “Listen here, Mr. Shiftlet,” she said, sliding forward in her chair, “you’d be getting a permanent house and a deep well and the most innocent girl in the world. You don’t need no money. Lemme tell you something: there ain’t any place in the world for a poor disabled friendless drifting man.”
The ugly words settled in Mr. Shiftlet’s head like a group of buzzards in the top of a tree.
—“The Life You Save May Be Your Own,”
Flannery O’Connor
Which two things are being compared in the last sentence?
10:12 15:18 i got this from doubling the first to make 5 = 10 and then that made 6 = 12. the second one was the same but tripled to make 6 = 18 and then that made 5 = 15
