Answer:
The saint
The unnamed narrator lives with his uncle, the proprietor of a small furniture-manufacturing business, in an English county market town. The uncle is a prominent lay member of the small Church of the Last Purification, of Toronto, Canada. The Purifiers believe that God created everything; that God, being good, could not have made evil; and that what appears to be evil is an illusion. “Don’t let Error in” is a favorite slogan of the Purifiers: Do not believe in the reality of disease, misfortune, or death, for they are no more than illusions. Membership in the Purifiers brings scorn and persecution from its adherents’ neighbors, but it also gives them the exhilaration of knowing that they alone know the Truth.
The narrator begins to doubt the Truth. If evil is an illusion, where did the illusion come from? He talks to his uncle, who simply repeats the Purifiers’ stock phrases. At this juncture, the Reverend Hubert Timberlake, a leading minister from the Purification Church’s headquarters in Toronto, comes to town. After giving an address on Sunday morning, he spends the afternoon with the narrator’s family. Timberlake, who has been told of the narrator’s wavering faith, proposes that the two of them go punting on the river after dinner. Timberlake insists on poling the punt, to show that he understands young people and that he is a regular guy.
All goes well until Timberlake, lecturing on how Error makes people dwell on sorrow, ignores the narrator’s advice about the river’s current and poles the punt through some willow trees. A tree branch catches him in the chest, lifts him off the punt, and leaves him clinging a...
His final relief and excitement at hitting upon his current proposal, which "hath something solid and real, of no Expence, and little Trouble," and which will not run the risk of angering England. <span>It will have nothing to do with England, in fact, since the flesh of human infants is too delicate to withstand exportation. </span>
A sentence that has more than one subject to it.
For example: the house is too expensive,and that house is too small.
Answer:
b comical because it is animals making fools of each other
1) denizens means inhabitants
2) surreptitiously means slyly
3) mollified means calmed
4) farcical means silly
5) palpable means able to be felt
