Answer:
Anglo-Saxon culture that it was important to risk your life to win battles, especially battles for revenge of loved ones. The big mother presents this aspect of Anglo-Saxon culture because she risks to fight and avenge her son's death.
Explanation:
The Anglo-Saxon heroic code put the battles on a level of high importance, for them the battles were more important than life itself. This intensified when the battle was aimed at avenging a relative or a friend. For the Anglo-Saxons a true warrior would risk his own life if it meant getting revenge for vile acts that someone committed with his loved ones.
Grendel's mother is a strong example of this concept, as she sets out to fight the powerful warrior who killed her son to avenge him. She knows that the warrior can kill her too, but she prefers to risk her own life so that her son can be avenged.
Even though Esquivel knows the story of maiz is a myth, she nevertheless warns her daughter not to step on a kernel of corn because the corn represents fertility and the kernels are part of the ritual. It would be wrong, or perhaps even sinful to step on such an important symbol of their culture which is why Esquivel doesn't want her daughter to be in some kind of danger because of such a reckless act.
Answer:
The stopped in the Valley of Ashes on their way to the city to meet Tom's girl, his mistress Myrtle Wilson.
Nick felt he had been ambushed or forced to meet her even though he had expressed no desire to be acquainted with her.
Explanation:
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" revolves around the story of Jay Gatsby and his desire to reunite with his former girl friend Daisy Buchanan. The story deals with themes of wealth, social life, a lost American Dream, love, life, etc.
The narrator Nick Carraway mentioned how he met Tom Buchanan's mistress in Chapter 2. Tom has been married to Daisy for several years now and his mistress Myrtle is also married to George Wilson. When Tom took Nick to meet Myrtle, it was more of a forced invitation rather than a request. Nick recalls how Tom was <em>"taking hold of [his] elbow literally forced [him] from the car."</em> Nick seems angry about the whole thing, <em>"The supercilious assumption was that on Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do."</em>
So, Tom and Nick stopped to meet Myrtle Wilson, Tom's mistress. Nick feels that it was more of a forced meet rather than a request to make him acquainted with her.
