Answer:
Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" depicts a family road trip that ends horribly. The grandmother persuades her family to take a detour to go sightseeing. The Misfit, an escaped felon, pulls up with his comrades, and the grandmother blurts out that she recognizes him.
In the excerpt, the word "pungent" refers to the pickles' aroma.
Pungent is a word to describe a very strong smell, very sharp and biting. So when Untermeyer used the word pungent to refer to the pickles, he was talking about their aroma, which is a fancy way to say smell.
Answer:
by appealing to emotions ?
This question seems to be incomplete. However, there is enough information to find the right answer.
Answer: Pearl notices that the scarlet letter on her mother's bosom has paved the way for lack of sunshine in her mother´s lie.
Explanation:
The question refers to The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
In the provided excerpt, Pearl notices that the sun seems to dislike her mother because of the scarlet letter on her bosom. Pearls comment about how that doesn´t happen to her because she doesn't have the scarlet letter yet implies that she thinks she will when she grows up to be an adult woman.
This means that she doesn´t think that the scarlet letter is unique to her mother, but something she will also get when she grows up. And she doesn´t admire her mother for it, as she dislikes how the sun runs away from her.
Pearl´s words imply that she, who is usually aware of things that others can´t see, has realized that the lack of sunshine in her mother’s life is caused by the scarlet letter on her bosom.
