Diana L. Eck is an American scholar of religious studies and professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University. She is also the Director of <em>The Pluralism Project</em> at Harvard.
In this excerpt, the order in which she presents the items serves a rhetorical purpose. The items are listed in order of how "accepted" they are in mainstream American society. Christianity (a cross) is well-accepted, while Judaism (yarmulke) is still omnipresent, but more contentious. As she goes on, the list would appear more and more exotic to American readers. The question therefore is successful in testing the limits of religious plurality.
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Well, Betty is a really extremely intelligent man. He is Montag's captain, and he presents a paradox. He knows that Montag is constantly hiding his interest in books, and he doesn't do nothing. The first time that Betty and Montag are introduced, it is noticeable the conflict between them. According to the statement "Hell! It’s a fine bit of craftsmanship, a good rifle that can fetch its own target and guarantees the bull’s-eye every time...Why? You got a guilty conscience about something?" is an example of Betty's perceptiveness about Montag and throughout the book, he likes to toys with Montag and manipulates him.
<span>tone is the authors ATTITUDE toward th writing. writing can have more than one tone.</span>
