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Pigs, widely present in world cultures, have taken on many meanings and been used for many purposes in traditional arts, popular culture, and media. As one scholar puts it, people all over the world have made swine stand for "extremes of human joy or fear, celebration, ridicule, and repulsion.
The correct answer is:
Alfonso thinking his father would likely call him a sissy
<em>"And his father, who was puro Mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy.”</em>
Alfonso had a conflict between him and this father, even though Alfonso seemed confident about the idea of having a new haircut, internally he knew neither his mother nor his father would accept it. Especially his father which in the text they make reference of his father's origin, was predisposed because of what he recalled about him.
It is being used as a transition word .
